not really sure how much i like this one but excited for line-dried sheets
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not really sure how much i like this one but excited for line-dried sheets
when your book falls in the pool yet you soldier on
the fact that everyone has one or two ridiculous nicknames in this book is my current favorite thing
she realized that the pyrotechnic display was the burning of the tiny silver threads in her mother‘s sweater
“There i pushed together two of the big leather wing-backed armchairs, toe to toe, and nested me in them with two of the blankets for a bed and the third stretched over the tops of the chair backs to make a canopy.” 😍
pickonly joyce carol oates could entice me into finishing a book of short stories. mesmerizing.
bailedmeh. I really wanted to like this, but didn't so much. the main character, Frances, was so ridiculously martyred by her life of scrubbing the floors and cleaning the outhouses, that it became ridiculous. and boring, at least to me. I just couldn't stick with it.
"what else would a ghost be made of but more dark?"
pickabsolutely loved this book. I was hesitant to read a traditional "murder mystery" but SO GLAD I did. The characters were amazing and complex and compelling.
so-soa little over halfway through, just starting to really like it. It's incredibly heavy on arcane Catholic religious stuff, which has kept me from completely enjoying and understanding the first half of the book.
pickI loved this book. it was just flawlessly written, for one thing. Russo has an amazing way of making us care for the characters while never being sentimental or weepy. The humor is just wonderful. I found myself laughing out loud several times, which I never do. Please read this!
