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Number9Dream

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23. About 70 pages into "Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books" by Kirsten Miller

Sun Jan 5, 2025, 03:13 PM

Jan 5

I took this book out of my library when I saw it mentioned by hermetic. Thanks, hermetic. When a young woman has the nerve to open her novel with this opening sentence: "Ronnie Childers was tripping his balls off in Jackson Square when an angel of the Lord appeared before him.", she had me hooked. I'm about 70 pages in and am enjoying it very much. Its chapters are messages that also have a sense of humor.

Later, Ms. Miller writes in regard to banning books: "When you have everything, the only luxury left is taking things away from others."

Lula Dean includes 'Art of the Deal' in the okay, safe books list.

I hope the rest of this book is equally good.

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