This is finished in the sense of "I give up," not in the sense of "I actually managed to finish it."I got about a hundred and twenty pages in, came to the scene where two parents drown kittens in order to get money, stopped, thought, realized there was no part of this book I was enjoying, gently put...
I wish I knew why I choose the books to read that I do. It strikes me as bewilderingly odd that I would pick this book up at the same time that I picked up The Group. The copyright is 1958, near that of The Group, and the book’s themes fit in nicely with those of The Group. Mrs. Eliot is happily ent...
[This note was made in 1983:]. Angus Wilson's Setting the World on Fire I thought was very clever and rather moving.
This is the book that began my loathe affair with Dickens. I tried at least four times, as I recall, to read this but was never able to get past the first few chapters.
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