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The premise of this book sounds very much like a movie I saw about someone's pool who gave people special powers but on the other hand took away things. I can't remember the name of the movie

I'm pretty sure a reference was made to the song Red rubber ball. At this point in the story

Lexi named her cat pig I thought that was very strange

The discussion of Ruth descent through the narrow passageway, when she was claustrophobic, was utterly terrifying.

It's interesting all the different names books or movies have come up with for people that Rose from the dead. This book calls them sleepers

Symbolism: In the context of Faulkner's work and the era, this term highlights the intersection of racial prejudice, fear of "otherness," and the haunting influence of superstition within the narrative.

This book definitely has a pet cemetery feel

During this section in several pages before the word hysterical must have been used at least 50 times

I especially enjoyed the chapter where Mary meets Mr craven for the first time. She goes in very afraid that he's going to cut off all her privileges, and she finds out just the opposite. He claims to not know how to raise a child but he wants her to be happy and comfortable.

The garden of Eden was the last book that Hemingay started to write. He would never finish it

Not mentioning the book per se, but Hemingway also said, the Earth is a fine place and Worth Fighting for. That was quoted in the movie seven which I recently finished

Hemingway was hard to say that Paris was his favorite city in entire world. He also bragged the deliberated one of the bars in France when Paris was liberated from Nazis

Hemingway got the title, a farewell to arms, from an old 1500 English poet. Also I didn't know this but his father also shot himself with a gun. And Ernest called that a cowardly act

Ezra pound was a critical mentor to Hemingway during 1920s Italy. They had differing views but the relationship remained

Ernest grew to dislike his mother for her staunch religious views and her criticizing of his friends. He stopped going to church around the time he first left home. Also it's interesting to see how his real life adventures were shown in his books and it makes me want to read a farewell to arms again. He talks about his time as an ambulance driver in Italy and also his romance with Agnes a nurse who broke his heart

Also in high school Ernest got in trouble for writing. He and his buddies started this thing called The jazz journal which basically consisted of a lot of dirty jokes.

Ernest once got punished for killing an innocent animal in the forest. He and his buddy were told to roast a porcupine and we're forced to eat it

I didn't know that her mother was Blythe Danner

Ernest Hemingway had a sister who was 18 months older and the parents often dressed them up as girls.

Writers often die at their desks. CROATOAN, left at Roanoke

It took me 1/2 an hour to realize that the Eel was blind

It seems like the only thing the VIlian is afraid of is that stupid frog that holds up signs that say things like "blockhead" when the VIllian is rudely abrupt and browbeats on of his employees.

Loyalty is easy to obtain when you have poisoned green ink on the contract signature

Edward passes on the girl who loves him for a pig and a poke . Sound familiar?

I also didn't know that the Khmer Rouge over in Cambodia around the time we left so I got a 1975.
Even though we lost the war militarily, I think we won the war of ideology. Because Vietnam nowadays it's pretty much communist in name only. The people embrace capitalism and America at the same time.

I get an Oscar and Felix sort of motif from this novel.

Kenzie seems like cold. Weather About as much as you do

The mothers missing earrings could be a clue

Funny to hear Kinsey speak of haircuts. She does her own, but said this woman she met could have benefited from a $40 cut.

There was a very poignant discussion between Kenzie and her on-again, off-again flame. It shows how sometimes being honest can only exasperate both people, even though they're telling the truth, because it involves basically a intractable situation.