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Old 09-20-2016, 06:05 PM   #3220
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73 View Post
Mislaid is hilarious. It is quite the send-up of the mores of the Southern Bourgeois intelligentsia with a very fun heroine.

“She had read enough lives of the poetesses to know all about inpatient psychiatric care.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“She would see that in England, for reasons unknown, a woman can simultaneously be cute as a bug’s ear, a serious rose gardener, and a nymphomaniac.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“As a writer, she was struggling. As an accomplice to the wholesale drug trade, she was setting new benchmarks for excellence in felony crime.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“If and when family planning is the responsibility of females, males are best kept under lock and key.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid

“It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid
If you nominate it this month in the MR Book Club, I'll vote for it.
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