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Two ruminations on life and death.

September 16, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Johnny Got His Gun 4/5 Stars This book has been on my To Read list since I was in high school. A combination of it being a book my dad would talk about (he never talked about books), being in the Metallica video, and various other sources, it’s always been around but it wasn’t until I started this year out implementing SSR (self-selected reading) in my English classes and had a used copy in a book bin that I finally decided to give it a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A death in the family, dalton trumbo, james agee, johnny got his gun

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:371 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A death in the family, dalton trumbo, james agee, johnny got his gun ·
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