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Congrats on Anna K!
Vanity Fair might be my favorite Victorian novel of them all. |
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I'm listening to two terrific books myself (and it's been a while since I could say that), Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood, a history of the early American republic and The Master by Colm Tóibín, an imagination of Henry James's interior life. |
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I'm most of the way through Richard Powers' Bewilderment. A very near future story of a neurodivergent child and his astrobiologist father, who is recently widowed. Much more digestible than his overly ambitious, not to mention behemoth, The Overstory (though I still enjoyed The Overstory for the most part).
Family, grief and environmental themes. Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. |
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After I finally finished Vanity Fair, I followed it up with, of all things, Crime and Punishment--which means that I've read two classic Russian novels this year (the other being Anna Karenina). I liked both of them MUCH better than Vanity Fair.
I abruptly switched gears to true crime; last week I happened to catch a TV movie based on Ann Rule's Bitter Harvest, so I decided to pick up the book, narrated by Cassandra Campbell. It was so much more engrossing and fast-moving than the Russian doorstoppers, but just as depressing! |
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