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Lake Wobegon Days
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April 5, 2012
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May 5, 2012

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Dolly
This is a book that I've heard and read about for a very long time but had never got around to reading it. It's filled with historical narrative and reminiscences of a fictional, but somewhat realistic town in Minnesota. The book is filled with subtle, dry humor and I think that you have to savor the caustic wit in small doses or you will lose the effect of the satire. And since the book is written like a historical account of a town and is a bit long, it took me a month to slowly savor the stor ...more
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