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The Feast of All Saints
The Feast of All Saints | Anne Rice
In the days before the Civil War in the old French Quarter of New Orleans there lived the GENS DE COULEUR, the Free People of Colour, a fierce and proud people, descended from slaves and their French and Spanish owners, neither Black nor White, but caught between the two - free and yet not free. Among them is Michael, the mesmeric copper-skinned youth, mercurial, attractive, wild: an artist in the making, he dreams of Paris, and the lure of a brand new art, Daguerreotype. His gentle sister Marie longs for love and marriage in a world ready to sell her charms to the highest bidder. And there is Anita Bella, the beautiful young courtesan; and Dolly Rose, the splendid madame; and Christophe, the brilliant young teacher who has returned from Paris with dangerous ideas. The author of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE has written a novel as exotic, exciting, colourful and sensuous as the French Quarter itself.
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Bailedbailed

I hate to bail on yet another title this month, but I'm just not feeling this one. Even just in the first few dozen pages, the flashbacks and ambiguous character references (similar names, unclear antecedents) have made the story incredibly tedious to follow, and I'm just not interested enough to put in the effort of unraveling the threads.

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ImperfectCJ
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I'm trying to read, but the discussion about whether the Eagles' defensive line is more fit than the Cowboys' offensive line is distracting me. (When my family watches football with me, they accept that it's going to be an MST3K situation.)

Clare-Dragonfly I hope the Eagles won! (Philly girl here… that and Gritty are about all I know of sports 😂) 2y
ImperfectCJ @Clare-Dragonfly It was pretty close throughout the game, but the Cowboys pulled off the win at the very end of the 4th quarter. We weren't watching by then because we had family card games to play and we don't care very much about NFL (we watch mostly college ball, about which I feel conflicted... young people getting traumatic brain injuries for my entertainment puts a damper on my fun). 2y
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Eggs Pretty💐🌿🪷 2y
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ImperfectCJ
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Today's modest library haul and a question:

As do most of you, I'm betting, I read a lot and enjoy engaging with ideas and the ways that stories/fiction can help us work through situations and emotions that are hard to get our heads around in real life. Books are a huge part of my life, and yet when I talk to most people, I rarely mention books/reading, and when I do, I feel almost embarrassed. I don't know why this is.

Does anyone else do this?

mcctrish I talk about what I read all the time. I‘m reading Cultish right now and it has a lot to say about multi-level marketing companies and brands like Peloton and how they use “cult speak” and I just need to talk about it. I‘m pretty sure people are used to me by now 🤣🤣🤣 2y
Aimeesue Depends on where I am. At work, people don't read, apparently, but I help run the book sale at my church, so I'm pretty well known as a reader there. And happily there are a lot of readers, so I'm always talking books or recommending to someone. (edited) 2y
ImperfectCJ @Aimeesue I guess this might be my issue, that I don't really have an IRL "reader" space. I should probably get in the habit of mentioning it to people I just meet so I can feel them out a bit. Who knows? They might be readers and are just waiting for an excuse to talk books. 2y
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ImperfectCJ @mcctrish That is an incredibly interesting concept! No wonder you always want to talk about it! That's a topic I'd have to tread carefully around, though, given the people I know. I used to bring up Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom all the time, but that's not a conversation that I find is usually welcome, either because people interpret it as political or because they find it boring. 2y
mcctrish Oh I might need to listen to that ( I love non-fiction on audio) and then share 🤣🤣 2y
ImperfectCJ @mcctrish The audio was great! I listened to it and also bought be the print book so I could underline and make notes (it's pretty dense). 2y
bthegood so glad you mentioned this - I work at a University so mentioning reading is not a negative although I tend to mention it in terms of texts, not for leisure - I am going to make a conscious effort to mention reading for leisure more often - #noapologiesforreading 😊 2y
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Eggs 👏🏻📚❤️ 2y
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Velvetfur I never got around to reading this one, all those years ago - thanks for the reminder! 😁 4y
OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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Finally starting this after seeing the Showtime portrayal so many years ago.