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37 Paddington's avatar

Oh my gosh, the writing here, yours and the Machado short story. I am reading Know My Name by Chanel Miller, and the writing there is pretty spectacular, too. Curiously, it reminds me in rhythm and style very much of the excerpt you've shared. Sentences building one on top of the other, the chosen details deceptively mundane, building to a devastating crescendo. Oh, literature! I'm so gratified to be able to immerse myself in it again. This is the gift of the world slowing down, I think. I'm very struck by the poetry of the titles of the books you mention here. So evocative, every one.

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Verna Wilder's avatar

That piece from a short story is beautiful, Elizabeth. Thanks. I just finished reading Hamlet--again. Reading Hamnet led me back to the play. Oh what a piece of work . . . ! On my Kindle I'm reading To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey. Just getting started on George Saunders--A Swim in the Pond in the Rain. Good time to stay away from the web. Let's just read and breathe and love each other.

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