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Old 01-17-2018, 10:32 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I know one thing that irritates me, is poor formatting.

The book club read Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers and the anti-semitism in the book rather bothered me. There were ways to say things without being so rude.
I mentioned it in the dedicated thread, but the moment magazine article on the topic is worth a read.

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Just how did the celebrated detective novelist actually feel about her Jewish characters—and why, in these books, can’t she seem to shut up about them? Why are there so many? Something is going on, something more complicated and personal than casual anti-Semitism and a good deal more interesting.
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