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Respect the Animal, Dammit.

Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

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Bingo square, Fauna I spent a week in Central Florida (pre-Disney era) one summer, many decades back, when I was 9 years old.  It was memorable.  From the gators roaming the backyards in the evening, to the constant state of sogginess I was in, even as a child, to the amazing show at Weeki Wachee wherein young women with amazing breath-holding skills played at being mermaids in a giant tank.  All this is to say that this book could only have been written about that […]

Accept Vassar professorship or head off the the boonies on a dodgy errand? What’s a poor girl to do?

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

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Bingo square – Travel I’ve read one of Peter Carey’s books (Oscar and Lucinda) awhile back (long enough ago it isn’t on my Goodreads list) but what I remembered about reading it was that the first two-thirds were What am I even reading, and then it clicked in and I devoured the rest.  So, readers, let us say I was prepared, and buckled in for the long ride. All right, those of you about my age certainly remember Patty Hearst.  Now let’s just say she […]

Call Me Domina.

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

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The setting is an exclusive girl’s school, set next to an icy lake in upstate New York, beset by a string of student suicides.  Or are they?  And how is it that pages of the new Latin teacher’s student journal, written and lost during her senior year, suddenly starting to show up?  Wait, now, this is sounding familiar.  Didn’t I just read this? Checking back through my goodreads list, I realize that I am thinking of Arcadia Falls, and it’s by the same author!  But […]

I Get You Better By the End, But Damn Girl.

Divorcing by Susan Taubes

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Not sure what to think about this one.  The first section covers Sophie Blind’s decision to divorce her husband despite his blithe insistence that this is not something that is going to happen.  Not that they are sharing any sort of life together.  Money is not the object, more of a possession sort of thing.  (This was written in 1969 for some sort of context, so I suppose we are in a Mad Men sort of a world here.)  Sorry Sophie, get your act together.  […]

Sexxxxy History

Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott

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Barbara Villiers Palmer was a nineteen-year old newlywed when her husband, Roger Palmier and his group of fellow-conspirators sent her to Brussels with a message to the king-in-waiting, Charles Stuart, and a fortune of gold coin sewn into the hem of her dress.  Witty and reckless and a renowned beauty, she immediately caught the eye of the much older king, and it was mutual attraction immediately.  She became his mistress and held that position for a turbulent decade.   The Puritan regime of Cromwell was […]



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