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Blueberry
Jubilee | Margaret Walker
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💛📚💛 3mo
Eggs Perfect 💛🤩💛 3mo
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Graywacke
Flags in the Dust | William Faulkner
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Faulkner‘s 1st book set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha county MS. It sets the backdrop most of his other work going forward. His postage stamp. It was rejected by publishers for having no plot or character development.

And yet I enjoyed it. I took in these characters and I closed it with real affection - the myth of Colonel John Sartoris, his brother, son, great grandsons all a short paths to glamorous bad ends, or haunted by the prospect.

Tamra Are you embarking on a Faulkner quest? My husband and I were just talking last week about perhaps reading his work in succession. 8mo
Graywacke @Tamra yes! I‘m reading a book on month, and started in January. 8mo
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Graywacke
Flags in the Dust | William Faulkner
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My past week. I finished Ammonites, started Faulkner‘s Flags in the Dust - which will take me most of March. Chaucer and How to Say Babylon continue. (I finished Sir Tropas in Canterbury Tales)

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Graywacke
Flags in the Dust | William Faulkner
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Started Faulkner‘s 3rd novel yesterday. The publisher felt it was too long, and only published it in a cut form in 1929. The full version wasn‘t released until 1973. There were corrections made in 2006.

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rachaich
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A completely unknown author to me.
I pulled it out of my case on the train between Berlin and Prague and have read half already. It's a series of events which then narrate the character's younger life.

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Eggs
The Pecan Man | Cassie Dandridge Selleck
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Described as a cross between The Help and To Kill A Mockingbird, this novel started strong and touched on some relevant topics of the 1960s-1970s southern U.S.: race, sexual assault, murder, and secrets. There is a sequel as well.

#SummerEndReadathon Day 12
#SeriesLove2023
#RushAThon

TheSpineView Great job! 14mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 14mo
Eggs @TheSpineView 🤗🤗 14mo
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Eggs @DieAReader 🤗🤗 14mo
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 Sounds a good read. 14mo
Eggs @Andrew65 🙏🏻🤗 14mo
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Bookwormjillk
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An interesting book about a couple who fled New York City to seek a simpler life in the Mississippi Delta. It wasn‘t that simple after all, and I found Grant‘s treatment of the issues in the area to be nuanced. I wish there was an update.

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Leftcoastzen
Delta Wedding: A Novel | Eudora Welty
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#BookBinge #InvolvesWedding It‘s been years since I read it.

Eggs Well done 👍🏼 1y
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Eggs
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Lovely MG novel - all her life, Bird has wanted 2 things: to be noticed, and go to Disney World! Winning the spelling be bee could increase her chances. Along the way, she makes some unexpected friends, and learns some amazing lessons. Great characters!

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick
#Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks

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Pinta
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^^p245 Jackson MS “publicly, unapologetically Black,” 💜 marching band depiction (gleaming horns, left right precision) but some metaphors seem overlinked, askew (“musicians consistent as seasons of crops”).

P168 “‘Why didn‘t enough change?‘ one answer is this: domination is creative as well as consistent.”

P176 “Staying alive on the grounds of your ancestors‘ murder and abuse is no small matter. It requires a living witness to their alchemy.”