Novels
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is a brussels sprouts book for me. For some reason the M.A.S.H. episode where Radar is in love with someone musical, and Hawkeye Pierce coaches him that he should respond…
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A Room with a View
I know it’s famous. I know it was a successful movie. But I had settled into grim dislike for it and was bearing down on the final pages before it suddenly and surprisingly…
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Watchman’s Stone
This is one of those books I’m embarrassed that I like: Watchman’s Stone, by Rona Randall. It’s one of three books I haven’t read since junior high but have felt a whim to…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
What does evil do to a soul? And how would you live if the only marks it left were preserved visibly in a secret work of art? Apparently for Oscar Wilde in The…
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A Live Coal in the Sea
I finished L’Engle’s A Live Coal in the Sea. It was hard to put down once I got going, even though there’s much in it that’s excruciating. It centers around a family’s attempt…
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A Severed Wasp
How do you heal human brokenness? It’s a question–the main question–Madeleine L’Engle explores in A Severed Wasp. The answer is a little surprising, given that the novel is set within the close-knit framework of…