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19. August 2036: The Old Ones, 3 stars. Elderly wave arrives.
20. September 2036: The Martian, 5 stars. Martian tries to help grieving couple.
21. November 2036: The Luggage Store, 3 stars. New war on Earth.
22. November 2036: The Off Season, 5 stars. The first hotdog stand.
23. November 2036: The Watchers, 3 stars. Time to go home?
24. December 2036: The Silent Towns, 4 stars. The last man on Mars, perhaps.

13. November 2033: The Fire Balloons, 4 stars. Missionaries throwing their weight around.
14. February 2034: Interim, 3 stars. New home, same as the old home.
15. April 2034: The Musicians, 4 stars. Boys love dead things.
16. May 2034: The Wilderness, 2 stars. Going to Mars for a man.
17. 2035–2036: The Naming of Names, 3 stars. The busybodies arrive.
18. April 2036: Usher II, 5 stars. Poe's house of horrors.

07. June 2032: —And The Moon Be Still As Bright, 5 stars. Archaeologist goes native.
08. August 2032: The Settlers, 3 stars. Pale blue dot.
09. December 2032: The Green Morning, 3 stars. Planting trees.
10. February 2033: The Locusts, 3 stars. Real migration begins.
11. August 2033: Night Meeting, 4 stars. Hiccup in time.
12. October 2033: The Shore, 3 stars. The second wave.

01. January 2030: Rocket Summer, 4 stars. Winter vignette.
02. February 2030: Ylla, 3 stars. Insanely jealous husband.
03. August 2030: The Summer Night, 3 stars. Mass precognition.
04. August 2030: The Earth Men, 5 stars. Skeptical welcome to Mars.
05. March 2031: The Taxpayer, 3 stars. Entitled American.
06. April 2031: The Third Expedition, 5 stars. Small town USA, Mars.

01. A Silent Wooing, 4 stars. Youngest Jolyon falls for the quiet sister of an American friend, farming peaches in South Carolina. After The White Monkey (#4), before The Silver Spoon (#5).

06. The Dog of the Marriage, 2 stars. Wah wah dogs, wah wah ex-husband.
07. The Afterlife, 3 stars. Sniffing around grieving husband.
08. Memoir, 1 star. One sentence.
09. Offertory, 2 stars. Man obsessed with woman's brief polyamorous relationship.

01. Beach Town, 3 stars. Eavesdropping on neighbors.
02. Jesus Is Waiting, 1 star. Nutty long distance driver.
03. The Uninvited, 2 stars. Pregnancy test, movie ramble.
04. Reference #388475848-5, 2 stars. Protesting a parking ticket.
05. What Were the White Things?, 3 stars. Attending an artist's lecture.

04. Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland, 4 stars. Confronting a pathological liar is painful.
05. The Sojourner, 4 stars. Ex-spouses share a meal, regrets cut deep.
06. A Domestic Dilemma, 3 stars. Alcoholism hurts a family.
07. A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud, 3 stars. Paper boy lectured about love.

01. The Ballad of the Sad Café, 5 stars. Lonely woman befriends the wrong person.
1.5. The Twelve Mortal Men, 4 stars. Convicts singing.
02. Wunderkind, 4 stars. Piano lessons are very stressful.
03. The Jockey, 3 stars. Jockey's potential nervous breakdown begins.

Space?!

01. The Haunted House, 2 stars. [2016]
02. Daniel Crowley and the Ghosts, 3 stars. [2016]
03. Tam O'Shanter, 3 stars. [2016]
05. Captain Walton's Final Letter, 3 stars. [2016]
10. The Tell-Tale Heart, 4 stars. [2015]
21. The Canterville Ghost, 4 stars. [2015]
26. The Yellow Wallpaper, 5 stars. [2015]
28. The Yellow Sign, 4 stars. [2014]
46. The Terrible Old Man, 3 stars. [2015]

20. Observing the Formalities, 2 stars. Passive-aggressive note.
21. The Sleeper and the Spindle, 4 stars. Princes are overrated.
22. Witch Work, 2 stars. Witch's CV poem.
23. In Relig Odhráin, 2 stars. Saint stick in the mud, Wikipedia fodder.
24. Black Dog, 5 stars. Shadow Moon has bad luck with friendly locals.

15. 'And Weep, Like Alexander', 3 stars. Uninventing the annoyances.
16. Nothing O’Clock, 3 stars. I've never seen Dr. Who.
17. Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale, 2 stars. Wicked stepmother needs a fix.
18. The Return of the Thin White Duke, 3 stars. Tinman or Bowie?
19. Feminine Endings, 5 stars. Declaration of love from a street performer.

08. Orange, 2 stars. Sister on tanning lotion.
09. A Calendar of Tales, 4 stars. Monthly oddities
10. The Case of Death and Honey, 4 stars. Sherlock & the bees.
11. The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury, 4 stars. Senility?
12. Jerusalem, 3 stars. Holy city madness.
13. Click-Clack the Rattlebag, 5 stars. Bed time story.
14. An Invocation of Incuriosity, 2 stars. Mystical knick knacks.

01. Making a Chair, 2 stars. Furniture assembly poem.
02. A Lunar Labyrinth, 4 stars. Walking a maze at night.
03. The Thing About Cassandra, 4 stars. Meeting old friends.
04. Down to a Sunless Sea, 3 stars. Rainy day by the river.
05. 'The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains...', 5 stars. Hiring a guide.
06. My Last Landlady, 3 stars. She's the worst.
07. Adventure Story, 3 stars. Dead dad's war stories.

16. The Little Green God of Agony, 4 stars. Rich guy hires a faith healer.
17. That Bus Is Another World, 5 stars. Busy man has no time for decency.
18. Obits, 4 stars. Journalist has hidden talents.
19. Drunken Fireworks, 2 stars. Class warfare and explosives.
20. Summer Thunder, 3 stars. A very Good Dog.

09. Afterlife, 2 stars. The white light, etc.
10. Ur, 5 stars. Pink Kindle is problematic.
11. Herman Wouk Is Still Alive, 2 stars. Too many damn kids.
12. Under the Weather, 3 stars. Bronchitis is no joke.
13. Blockade Billy, 3 stars. Zzz baseball.
14. Mister Yummy, 4 stars. Nursing home visitor.
15. Tommy, 3 stars. Dead hippies.

01. Mile 81, 3 stars. Sticky station wagon.
02. Premium Harmony, 2 stars. Bickering couple run errands.
03. Batman and Robin Have an Altercation, 4 stars. Father & son lunch date.
04. The Dune, 5 stars. Judge revises his will.
05. Bad Little Kid, 4 stars. Condemned man tells his story.
06. A Death, 3 stars. Hat as evidence.
07. The Bone Church, 2 stars. Jungle poem.
08. Morality, 4 stars. Sinning for cash.

21. The Count and the Wedding Guest, 4 stars. The power of a little black dress.
22. The Country of Elusion, 2 stars. Hipsters.
23. The Ferry of Unfulfilment, 2 stars. Newly rich man follows a pretty girl.
24. The Tale of a Tainted Tenner, 1 stars. History of a $10.
25. Elsie in New York, 2 stars. Orphaned job seeker.

16. A Harlem Tragedy, 5 stars. Marital love in multiple forms.
17. "The Guilty Party" an East Side Tragedy, 2 stars. Good girl gone bad.
18. According to Their Lights, 2 stars. Differing principles among the hard-luck cases.
19. A Midsummer Knight's Dream, 3 stars. Summer vacationing.
20. The Last Leaf, 5 stars. Sickness in an artists' colony.

11. Vanity and Some Sables, 4 stars. Reformed hoodlum gives a gift.
12. The Social Triangle, 3 stars. Handshakes all around.
13. The Purple Dress, 4 stars. A friend's kindness.
14. The Foreign Policy of Company 99, 5 stars. Fresh off the boat immigrant encounters firemen.
15. The Lost Blend, 4 stars. Two tablespoons of courage.

06. The Assessor of Success, 3 stars. Petty swindler doing his night's work.
07. The Buyer From Cactus City, 4 stars. Gentleman from Texas makes a quick decision.
08. The Badge of Policeman O'Roon, 4 stars. Wealthy man helps a tipsy friend.
09. Brickdust Row, 2 stars. Hoity-toity property heir is judgemental.
10. The Making of a New Yorker, 2 stars. Poetic claptrap about cities.

01. The Trimmed Lamp, 4 stars. Two girls on the hunt for husbands.
02. A Madison Square Arabian Night, 3 stars. Homeless painter reveals what's underneath.
03. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball, 3 stars. Fun drunk quits drinking, wife is less than pleased.
04. The Pendulum, 4 stars. Husband's nightly routine is interrupted.
05. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen, 3 stars. Thanksgiving traditions are observed.

Sucker punched.

I've been looking for the name of this book for half of my life. The Pigman by Paul Zindel

Previously read

Part 3: Noctuary [32-39]
The Medusa, Conversations in a Dead Language, The Prodigy of Dreams, Mrs Rinaldi’s Angel, The Tsalal, Mad Night of Atonement, The Strange Design of Master Rignolo, The Voice in the Bones

Part 4: Teatro Grottesco [40-45]
Teatro Grottesco, Severini, Gas Station Carnivals, The Bungalow House, The Clown Puppet, The Red Tower