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Sue is on page 274 of 288 of Gliff
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Gliff

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Sue is on page 179 of 288 of Gliff
I looked up the word idiomatic in a different dictionary. Thrilling to me, the variety. Thrilling both to know and to not know, to be gifted possibilities…
Like there was such a thing as a family of words, one that stretched across different languages all touching on each other…acting on each other, influencing each other, agreeing with each other…disturbing each other, doing all of these things at once.
May 17, 2026 11:44AM Add a comment
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Sue is 61% done with Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden
Quite a variation between stories in terms of their ability to hold my interest.
May 17, 2026 11:21AM Add a comment
Out of the Darkness: Classic Short Fiction from Sweden

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Sue is on page 162 of 288 of Gliff
“Was a horse more lost to the world, because of no words, or was the horse more found—or even founded—in the world because of no words?
Were we in our worded world the ones who were truly deluded about where and what we believed about all the things we had words for.”
May 17, 2026 11:19AM Add a comment
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Sue is starting The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories
I have read An Engineer’s Story, The Four-Fifteen Express, The Story of Salome, A Service of Danger, and Was it an Illusion with the Dickensians group. And plan to read the title story with the group later this summer while reading the remaining stories on my own.
I’m generally impressed by Edwards’ writing, her world building, characters and plots. Also her evident knowledge of the world.
May 15, 2026 03:54PM Add a comment
The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

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Sue is 43% done with The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination
Besides effigies and pictures and clothes, other creatures which inhabit this hinterland between life and non-life are people made up from inanimate bits and pieces-wooden legs, wigs, artificial hands and so forth.
May 10, 2026 01:54PM Add a comment
The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination

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Sue is 41% done with The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination
The effigy, the picture, the thing with human lineaments which watches, paralysed and dumb-this supplies a major imaginative level in Dickens’ novels which interacts with the human beings just as importantly as the human beings react to each other.
May 10, 2026 01:50PM Add a comment
The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination

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Sue is 40% done with The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination
From ch 4, Corpses and Effigies: “Dickens’ dead figures who subject the living to their alarmed and alarming gaze are made of wood..stone..metal..painted canvas as well as wax. The mingled terror and hilarity they cause harks back to Dickens’ toddler days. His nursery contained a monstrous collection of effigies, who pretended to be dead with alarming ill-success” Details of Dickens emotional scars follow.
May 10, 2026 01:45PM Add a comment
The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination

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Sue is 69% done with The Penguin Book of the International Short Story
Exciting and different stories
Apr 25, 2026 06:32PM Add a comment
The Penguin Book of the International Short Story

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Sue is starting Everything That Rises Must Converge
I’m going to return the book to the library. It’s old, yes, but I could read it if someone (or more) hadn’t written notes and underlined so much that it’s very distracting. Back to my want to read list.
Apr 08, 2026 10:38AM 2 comments
Everything That Rises Must Converge

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Sue is starting The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow
I’ve decided not to continue reading this book. I didn’t realize when I requested it how closely connected it is to the earlier books and that knowledge of the characters would be very helpful. Rather than read without that and likely deprive myself of meaningful background, I’m going to stop now.
Apr 02, 2026 03:15PM Add a comment
The Creek, The Crone, and the Crow

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Sue is 27% done with You Did Nothing Wrong
I’ve decided not to finish this book. Part of me wants to know how it ends but I’m very tired of the primary character, the way she is presented as somewhere between doting and deranged mother and wife with a young child who obviously has his own problems. Is there a haunting in their old house? Is this child hearing ghostly whispers? Is Elodie a loving person overwhelmed by life or deranged. Don’t care anymore
Mar 14, 2026 07:28PM Add a comment
You Did Nothing Wrong

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Sue is 37% done with Crucible
In the depression, moving into the labor movement beginning to confront Ford and his paid enforcers. Also following the gradual development and devolution of Fords great plan to make his own rubber in Brazil, Fordlandia. Epic presentation of so many affected by Ford and his plans.
Feb 01, 2026 04:22PM Add a comment
Crucible

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Sue is 43% done with The Dead Secret
Another Dickensians group read. Love these. Interesting book.
Feb 01, 2026 04:16PM Add a comment
The Dead Secret

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Sue is 28% done with One Sun Only: Stories
I’m going to DNF this book. I have finished the first three stories and simply can’t become engaged with them. The characters don’t have enough movement or internal momentum in their lives to carry me along. They think, but, so far, don’t really act in their own lives. Sorry. I’d hoped for more. I know many really like this collection but it’s not for me.
Jan 28, 2026 06:25PM Add a comment
One Sun Only: Stories

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Sue is 47% done with Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International)
I am getting nowhere with this book. I keep putting off returning to it. I am going to DNF it. Sadly. I thought I would like this but I find it overwrought and difficult to keep my attention on these people who don’t seem more than caricatures. Maybe it would improve if I continued. Maybe I’m just not in the mood for this book now. Oh well. I tried.
Jan 20, 2026 09:39PM Add a comment
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Vintage International)

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