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Yeah, book is well written, and Greene either learned Catholicism to a very high level or he researched it very deeply. I don’t know whether Tabasco is ever explicitly mentioned, but the red shirts are and if one googles red shirts one gets the particular tragic goings on in Tabasco , death squads et al.

Hey ! the pronunciation glossary is a riot but I’m not even sure which language’s corrected pronunciation it’s supposed to be . Do we even know how many official languages there are in India and its vassal states ?
And finally a murder mystery with the longed for maps of some of the layouts .

Having a terrific time reading it . Starting part 2 . The story’s a cross between reading SKI MAGAZINE and watching NCIS LA -Kensi rooting about and lost in Afghanistan storyline

Never good policy in any circumstance at all to mention the r-word .

It’s a good book. Wish I were there -as a tourist .

I got into it despite it’s being an earlier episode.

It’s an earlier episode in Vera’s detecting career but not too bothersome that i had read ahead with Harbour Street .

This section is about what the apostle Paul thought and taught about the call, justification and election of God’s people, so dense reading .

Interestingly, some of the characters are about to walk a length of the Hadrian’s Wall Trail on a date . I wouldn’t mind seeing that trail myself, i have postcards and photos of it only .

I like it a lot .

Gosh, the characters in the sex business have rather unstable minds given to them. And it’s so boring about all the good old Hu. refugees.
I restarted reading at page one, giving Callaghan some credit since he had been pals with Hem and Scotty in Paris forty years before he wrote this book. Hem yelled at him about his run on sentences. I thought I came across that sentence in this book

Gosh, another novel of his about hookers, prostitution, organized crime and generally low -lives and all the upstanding individuals who fall into rebelling against law and order using the spheres of the sex life, the love life, the human reproductive system with all its aggressions and violence.
My contention is that one writes what one knows about, the poor man.

Started reading the short story Cheap in August -don’t know yet what it’s about nor the setting, but it could be Jamaica

These octogenarian characters are not normal. Whatever happened to retirees lying-in listening to morning news talk radio for hours every morning?
Have u ever heard of wild camping? Well, now they’ve discovered wild lethal injections, just while people are out and about town for their own business. And poor Joyce, she threw herself at a nice looking man who simply couldn’t measure up.

I like it .

Just finished reading Green Eyes -perhaps this story partially matched up with the quality of Mavis Gallant’s stories -or perhaps foreigners to Canada would really enjoy it. I got into the story a bit . I just noticed it was set like 400 miles north of the Mile End - up north . Lots of difficult talk and feelings about toilet paper. good one. But many countries don’t have any.

I may have to re-read the first few stories. I put the book down too long, lost the reading momentum and forgot what I had read about. But I have noticed that I’m comparing Sarah Gilbert’s writing to Mavis Gallant’s and don’t know how or why but MG’s comes out on top. Perhaps MG was more hounded by the furies and so she wrote.

Have only 4 sermons left to read, read, re-read everything else in book. Even looked up info re the Liberal theology Barth reacted against. This Aug 30 sermon was the most applicable so far to the war situation, based on the true prophet Isaiah’s message that in quietness and in trust (and in hope) shall be yr Strength-Isa.30:15. Basically war shouldn’t concern us; we should work toward unity and brotherhood