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Maybe I read this book years ago pre-Goodreads days in my life. it seems vaguely familiar. But it is a compelling mystery and I am enjoying it—if that is the right word for such evil and sadness. I do remember Wallendar’s eating and drinking habits and his ill health being a factor. More later when I finish it but I could rate it five stars already.

I read 84 Charing Cross Road years ago and got it from the library to reread. This time it did not charm me as much. So today I tried Hanff’s memoir of her trip to London to meet the correspondents of 84. And I am finding it a fun, relaxing read—and enjoying London with Hanff.

I’m really enjoying my trip with this family through India and now Nepal coming up.

I keep thinking this book is too abstract and difficult for me and I should give up. Then I open it up at random and I find a good excerpt that speaks to me. Today is was “Can this sin live?” About Lucille Clifton and poems of loss and a slave ship and a homeless woman with her toe sticking out of her shoe. And I was touched and thought I should look up more Clifton poetry.

I abandoned it early on. just don’t want to read about evil men and murder right now. Enough evil in this world without imagining more of it in a novel.