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Fantastic read!!

a great read!! adventurous spirit within is awakended

“More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened,lost their articulations,their articulateness,their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mid,the language has stiffened .”
Wow. I do believe J.M.Coetzee has “warped sped “ into our current political arena!!!
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I set my cup of coffee down, snuggled my wrap tighter around me to help ward off the chills this sentence provoked in me:"if you gave Charles Manson the mind of Nikola Tessa ,she said,...."

Where shall I go? I asked myself.
Go to your sister.
But where is she?
Go to those who killed you, then.
But where are they?

Books are fantastic and probably come into their own in a cabin in the woods, but how fun is it to read a fantastic book if you can't tell others about it, talk about it, and quote from it constantly?

I had so many intentions of finishing all my current reading book list and 2 other books. BLIP< BLIP< left all if them behind. The weight and number of suitcases allowed before any upcharge on my diving vacation in Bonnaire but a crimp in my reading goals.. BLIP BLIP,,,made up for it in dives and playing with the 'fishys"..

I have been on the library request list since it was released. Just picked it up