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Pica is 85% done

The more I think about it, the more I feel that Lewis did actually want to focus his novel on the female characters, and only made mild-mannered Doremus the protagonist because if you didn’t have a white male everyman protagonist in the 1930s your novel wouldn’t sell. All the most compelling characters are women.

— Nov 08, 2018 10:26AM

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Pica is 66% done

This book continues to be a good but intense and anxious read. I keep finding myself wishing that it was from the point of view of Lorinda, the sharp-tongued widow with the fire of revolution in her heart, or Sissy, Doremus’s idealistic but practical 18yo daughter.

— Nov 07, 2018 11:12AM

Pica is 60% done

About halfway through this book, s**t got real. Fascism cranked up to 11!

— Sep 03, 2018 03:35PM

Pica is 30% done

This book is so unsettling. Almost prophetic.

— Aug 22, 2018 03:13PM

Pica is 8% done

I'm reading this on Project Gutenberg. 3 chapters in. For a novel published in 1935, an uncomfortable amount of it is still relevant.

— Jul 31, 2018 11:04PM