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Interrupted by better books, and just in time because we had a “no means yes” moment!

Gogol’s Wife by Tommado Landolfi requires both intimate knowledge of the Russian writer and Police Squad’s “the author’s barely disguised fetish” to work, and boy does it.

I cannot deal with “MERTON DENSHER” figuring out the swindle (marry the rich dying girl and then he will be acceptable to the mother of the girl he wants to marry) on page 394 despite he and his lady talking about it for a hundred pages

Our main character is dying but exhibits no signs other than “prefers to stay on the second level of her Venice estate.”

Finally, they are plotting

“Henry James was harshly portrayed by H. G. Wells as a hippopotamus laboriously attempting to pick up a pea that had got into a corner of its cage.” —Wikipedia

This book made me forget how to read.

Wish there were far fewer terms for Black people and ship parts.

Not a huge fan of Dostoevsky interrupting his murder mystery with an episode of the Lil Rascals.

In Crime and Punishment, FD invents Columbo. In Karamazov, he invents Phoenix Wright.

Halfway done, and the plot has started!

ew he kissed his brother on the lips

Gosh only 600 pages to go

In which Father Karamazov does his best Rodney Dangerfield impression…

A theme is emerging in these short stories: Women of A Certain Age are confronted with exciting, new possibilities, consider them, and say “not for me, thanks.”

Giving a character a full-on Danganronpa death is the highest honor FD can give one of his characters.

Dostoevsky invented Columbo and the concept of NPCs in the same chapter!

THE TITULAR CRIME HAS OCCURRED

“I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly.

Soon they will hide the neighbor and her screaming child.”

“I have the idea that soon I will no longer believe my feelings are the center of everything. This is a real comfort to me.”

Part 6 becomes Part 7 on page 670. Okay.

Great, she’s a morphine addict now

“Anna Karenina f*cks around and finds out”