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44. Thanks for what you do, Hermetic

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 07:20 PM

Jan 2019

That's a beautiful sign.

I read Uprooted, by Naomi Novik and I'm finishing Crosstalk by Connie Willis. Uprooted is about a magical world where the trees have been taken over by an evil ghost bent on revenge. Very well written, imaginative plot; it felt a bit brittle to me but I'm not the audience she's writing for.

I'm about 60 pages from the end of Crosstalk and I'm not sure where Willis is taking me. For Willis, confusion is a feature rather than a defect but this one seems more scattered than any of her others.

I plan to restore order this week with a big biography of Frederick Douglas by David W. Dwight. Cheers.

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Awesome sign and good for you joining the local march! Ohiogal Jan 2019 #4

Thanks! hermetic Jan 2019 #10

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