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In August 1944, Frankie is 12 with no mother and a soldier brother who is about to marry before shipping out. McCullers perfectly captures that in between time when you‘re still a kid but starting to see parts of the world differently. I don‘t usually like child narrators, but I thought this was terrific.

900 hundred pages of Faulkner is a lot. This is the 1951 National Book Award winner, but I didn‘t think it was good sample of Faulkner‘s stuff. It doesn‘t show, in my opinion, how could he can be. But it does occasionally show how frustrating he can be. Unfortunately I was beaten down by this. My favorite stories are at the end (some of which are his earliest stories), but i was kind of worn out by that point.

A cozy mystery with a group of characters who were mostly like-able. Small town Mississippi is the setting. The story was okay. The first in a series, but I don‘t believe I‘ll read the rest. I prefer a bit more depth in stories, but not bad for a lighter. 3.25/5⭐️

After watching some new movies over the past month I have rearranged my top movies of the year, and my top 5* (7) definitely looks different. As of today these are my rankings for movies released in this unholy year (2025):
*Sinners
*Frankenstein
*Weapons
*Eddington
*The Monkey
*Long Walk
*Companion

#ARichLife #Veggies

Technically a fruit, but a socially acceptably vegetable 😂

An old copy of a classic will always catch my attention at a thrift store, and barring any weird smells, it‘s coming home with me. I didn‘t see the notes on the inside covers until after the fact. Pretty sweet surprise! 🙌🤓

#TTT #TakeThreeThursday on Saturday @dabbe

A few of those tiny states were difficult to select. In actuality, I had 47/50. I live in NJ. I have work and familial tires to New England, so those are on lock. I've driven up & down the East Coast a ton. It's some of those states in the middle where I get muddled up. But I'll share with you all how to always find Kentucky on a map. 😉

This is a first edition copy from my library….that cover. Pub date 1976. I‘m glad I went into this book blindly bc you think you‘re just getting a coming of age book in the 1950s in the South but it‘s so much more than that. Covers the severe racial injustice that was going on at the time and the path of one young privileged white coed from slight concern for the plight of blacks to an a more evolved compassion and understanding. #Alabama

Scavenger hunt #green #hauntedshelf #grimreaders @CSeydel

“It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie.”

#Treats

#HauntsAndHexes

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks