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Never fails to be a favorite...year after year.

War is evil & its acts are violently acted upon the body & there is a specificity to the act of war waged on women's bodies that is exceptionally evil--so horrific, the word evil appears to lose its meaning, but Nottage will not let that erasure happen, nor will she let the audience look away.

Good book. Loved Raymond.

A matchmaking cat who knows better than humans? Perishing in a pandemic? Totally losing will to believe this is real and not a shared simulation? Then Mac & his inner thoughts are for you. In, as we say in the Catholic Church, “Ordinary Time” this book would be two stars...but my literary needs are constantly chamging these days & this book made me as happy as a cat with sardines

John Lewis is one if my all time favorite Americans. Reading Book One of this series substantiated my admiration for him even more.

Read this version for the Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrations, which are delightful.

3 stories finished: damn great collection already

Outta the trifecta of tragedy that I know best: Hamlet is still my favorite and probably te best; Macbeth is accessible and imprinted in our cultural consciousness (unsex me now; fair is foul and foul is fair; something wicked this way comes; sound and fury); but Lear is the one that takes you to the saddest and lonliest places the human soul knows. Brilliant and tough reread: five stars:

Wise Blood: What a great book to finish on a rainy, windy Halloween night. Hazel Motes and the cast of characters he meets after his creepy train ride into a Twin Peaks-esque Southern small town are an odd and disturbing lot. The gifted, descriptive, eerie O'Connor drops the Southern Gothic gauntlet in this tale. The novel feels like a possible prologue for Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily."

Starting the fifth and final novel in the Chikdren of Violence series...very excited to see what Lessing does with my beloved Martha!