a literary magazine, and read a chapter or two but abandoned it in favor of another book about Nancy Wake, an Australian woman who served as a spy for the French resistance in WWII. When I finished that book, I decided to give the other book another try. That book, Betty by Tiffany McDaniel is disturbing in so many ways that I think I might just abandon it for good, esp. after I read the 1 and 2 star reviews on amazon.com. One of the reviewers wrote that one of the characters did something horrible to a mother cat and her kittens. I can take a lot of realism and graphic description, but animal cruelty is just completely unfathomable and beyond my comprehension. So I guess that means I need to move on to another book. I'm thinking about re-reading Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb which I read (and loved) so many years ago.
Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic, and I hope your energy returns very soon. 
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