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I'm putting this aside for the time being. Life is too short!

Taking a breather on Proust.

This is a pleasant alternative to my long-term engagement with Shelby Foote and Marcel Proust.

I'm well into the third volume. I was so frustrated by how the Army of the Potomac once again failed to exploit a Confederate vulnerability so as to bring the rebellion to an end. Grant's fuck up at Cold Harbor was also sobering. Neither the upper-level Rebel or Federal military leadership had seemingly learned a thing after three years of blundering and bloodshed.

So I'm giving this a rest.

This is my second read-through. I'm taking a break.

I'm giving this set a break. All that blundering and bloodshed is sobering.

I'm currently reading the second volume.

A real slog--this volume

A real slog, this volume.

A real slog, this volume.

I'm struggling through this Jazz Age novel based on Klaus Mann's experiences in 1920s bohemian Paris.

These penny dreadful stories make for a pleasant counterbalance to the poetry of John Berryman and Charles Olson.