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DNF became redundant halfway through.

“Nothing says fuck you to your kids quite like leaving your fortune to a lizard.” (Chapter 5)

It’s St. Crispin’s Day!

Setting aside the Tudors for a moment to ponder the Plantagenets.

I would love to read a really well done biography of Agatha Christie and then start her canon.

I think the Hulu production of this author’s story encompasses more than just this book, perhaps to integrate her memoir.
In its own, this is enjoyable and touching.

I started this, and I was so confused! So, I watched the movie. In my complete enchantment of Bella Wood, I need no further words. DNF

“All humans, from their own perspectives, are living a truth and reality as valid as ours.”

It really gets rolling in 2014.

FN Newt and Fuck Breitbart for dying.

Palin the actual woman who made Fetch happen.

What a send up! Excellent from the first sentence! Listening to the audio, which is not ideal. I’m going to add this to my permanent physical collection and reread!

Meh. I think there’s a crisis of competency in the field of editing.

Et tu, Coco?

“One of the powers tyrants hold is to destroy and distort the truth, and force others to submit to what they know is untrue.” - G. Orwell

Brilliant. Sparse yet vivid. Perhaps my favorite Le Carré yet.

Foner is overwhelming, but worth it.

Apparently in Boston in the 17th century, they’ve evolved to hanging instead of burning witches. I’ve been trying to get through the audio. With possibly the worst narrator ever, I honestly don’t care if this “witch” swings. DNF

In post production as a movie, with Ben Affleck in the lead.

UNCLE!!

My 2021 Dickens selection!