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Love, Etc.

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I really enjoyed this play on Death in Venice -- though to be honest it's more of an explosion of Death in Venice. In the first half, the references are there (hair dye, aging, pining after youth, chases around the city, oppressive heat, finite ...more
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Despite my strange love for Maisie Dobbs, I still wouldn't really classify myself as a mystery reader -- which probably allowed me to enjoy this way more than actual mystery readers do. I thought this was a fun gimmick -- the inspector is in bed so he ...more
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This book is eerily like Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton - though perhaps not quite as good. What it does well is deal in minutiae. The small, strange memories we all have that seem like they shouldn't matter but stick in our brains. The ...more
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There was a time when I would have enjoyed this more... but I'm just getting a little tired of having to set aside my frustrations with the endemic sexism in most classic novels, and this is a prime offender. I can deal with scenes of rape and ...more
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