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"My Al-Anon friend told me about the frazzled, defeated wife of an alcoholic man who kept passing out on the front lawn in the middle of the night. The wife kept dragging him in before dawn so that the neighbors wouldn't see him, until finally an old black woman from the South came up to her one day after a meeting and said, 'Honey? Leave him lay where Jesus flang him.'" ~ Anne Lamott, _Bird by Bird_

As soon as I can figure out how, I'm going to eliminate all the books from my hopelessly outdated "currently reading" list. I've been absent from Goodreads for so long that it has seemed an impossible task to catch up. I'm not going to try. I'm just going to start fresh, adding books only as I finish them.

An old favorite that I'm rereading for my classics book group.

Great balls of fire! After slogging through 94 pages of this, I just now discovered on Amazon that it's an abridgement -- which is indicated NOWHERE on the book. Oh, well, I'm finding it rather a chore to get through anyway. But still I feel I've been cheated out of the genuine book.

Still working my way through this, with holiday interruptions.

I downloaded this as a Kindle cheapie a few weeks ago and have read in it desultorily, while waiting in lines and whatnot.

I started this book earlier in the month and was devouring it, but I had to lay it aside to get Christmas seen to.

This is the book we're studying in our women's Bible study group at church, and so my progress in it is gradual, especially since we suspended our meetings for the month of December.