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Up next for book club, and my current read. #FirstSaturdayReaders

Not entirely sure how I feel with this one. It wasn‘t what I had in mind, but it was good nonetheless. It got to be a bit repetitive at times for me and so it didn‘t have me all hooked. Either way, the plot was interesting and I enjoyed it.

Blacklisted actor Paul Robeson summed it up best in a letter he wrote to Charlie: "...fascists everywhere hated you for your anti-Nazi film, The Great Dictator. Well, Hitler and his gang are gone, but Chaplin and his art lives on! And your name will be honored --yes, here in America, too --long after McCarthy and his kind are buried in oblivion.".

Indeed.

Christmas Eve✨

It was intrinsically absurd...until Donald Trump.

It‘s a biography so obviously she dies in the end but it kind of destroys me how she had this major complex of always putting on a persona and being either a movie star or a wife even long after she retired and her first husband had died.

I love reading about the late 1800s early 1900s era and this was a really interesting read!

Meh meh meh. I really thought about bailing but pushed through.

Fun, kinda dark romp.. I enjoyed 4321 by the same author.. he seems obsessed with refractions/reverberations across (shared) lives/timelines? I'll pick up any other Austers I stumble across..