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Picked up a signed copy in new local bookshop 😁

Now this is more like it

It’s got to be done, I suppose 🙈🙈🙈🥃🥃🥃

"But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?”
“It was a president, señora.”
“Of what? Some place where they don’t have any oxygen?”
“Of the United States.”
“As I said.”" (from "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver)

Loving the quick-witted writing with laugh-out-loud passages

One of the most incredible books I’ve read in ages. Sadly not quite finished before hearing Barbara K in person this evening!

I thought reading this in the original would lessen the emotional impact...! No.