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This is not the edition I am reading, which is Peter Pauper Press and has 84 pages, but as close as I can find listed.

So far, I recognize two of the pieces and can follow their rhythm.

So far, unusual that it's mostly dialogue. I suspect where it's going, but the Nick-and-Nora set up of husband and wife detectives and a 1920s story of patriarchal abuse of daughters and wife is effective. We see it in Sayer's Harriet Vane novels, but the tension is effectively bald here.

I will finish this novel today and begin Philippa Gregory's Royal Witch.

Ridiculous male egos that are so fragile they must completely dominate women in everything, in money, competence, strength, intelligence... All my life I've seen this but never so bald as what I find in historical novels. Men are , sometimes, more polite today, but many approach women in this same way.

The copy I'm reading seems unlikely to be as late as 1960. It is a beautiful binding and Peter Pauper Press was founded in 1928. The book feels to my hands to be that old.

"I want to be as dumb as the wise are wrong."

Loved this at the beginning, but at this point in the memoir the beloved Leonel has become... too entitled? too careless of Forché? annoying?

There is little candor, and of course this experience is what led to her break out and brilliant chapbook, but...

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