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Nina ( picturetalk321 )
This has been languishing on my shelf since May. I wanted to read it for the Reading Women Challenge 2020 and also because Morrison is so celebrated and so well-loved but, as with a number of Nobel laureates I have read, also High Literature and something I just couldn't get into (cf Tokarczuk and others I've read over the decades and now can't recall - Grass?). I just couldn't get into this; I had several goes. Also, the cover, coarse yellowed paper and bleeding-into-the-page ink of the font of ...more
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