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It's Tuesday again and time for #Two4Tuesday Everyone is welcome to play. Thanks to everyone who played last week!

1️⃣ Hands down, a farm or rural person.
2️⃣ This book is set in upstate SC where I live.

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This book is hard to describe. It‘s had some beautiful vignettes and gorgeous descriptions of nature. Parts are very disturbing and not easy to read. It‘s was our April Bookclub pick. Thank you @Cathythoughts for choosing it. I don‘t think I‘d have read it otherwise and I would have missed the wonderful prose and characters. It will stay with me for a long time.

This a simple story that is stuffed full of Faulknerism which is not necessarily every person‘s cup of tea. Written in a stream of consciousness style with circular imagery, opaque idiomatic references, and a profound understanding of a bygone South and people, this book somehow positions the reader as the intruder and leaves us in the dust. Thoroughly enjoyable if you are OK with bowing to Faulkner‘s world.

Thankyou @emmasm08 for saying I‘d like this one. I really did like it. Great storytelling and characters and mostly I loved that it was so human. ❤️

Reading it now …. Finished it this afternoon - I loved it ! Just a great read about the complexities of life and love .

After loving Napolitano‘s 2 most recent books, I snapped this one up when it popped up at my library. It follows a handful of characters, including Flannery O‘Connor and her peacocks, in small town Georgia in the late 50s/early 60s. I think she develops characters so well and I felt the emotions of these people right alongside them. And Otis approves of peacocks as storyline!

❄️ Listening to records with my dad
❄️ ❄️ My kindness and desire to help others.
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I'm about halfway through this one and it's good, but not gripping my attention the way I'd hoped.

I'm in New Orleans for the weekend, celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary with my husband. We only live 2 hours away, so it's an easy trip. Every time we come, I get a first edition at one of the lovely bookstores here. Ellen Gilchrist is considered a local author, so there's usually something in stock. This one is from 1980. The jacket isn't in great shape, but honestly, I'm not the kind of collector who cares about that.

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"Shadowy reflections of drooping banana leaves haunted the dirt-smudged windows of the old house."
-The Shop on Royal Street by Karen White

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