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Omigosh, I could not stop laughing at Agnes and her best friend “The Kaiser.” Reading in bed last night, next to a sleeping husband, my shoulders were shaking until I finally had to laugh aloud. Just one word: “organism.” The misnomers are the best!

I can’t recall ... this seems familiar, but I don’t know the ending. Creepy but fascinating.

I am struggling. The word “inchoate” has been used at least 50 times. 1929 seems centuries ago, instead of 90 years, if this is typical “coming of age” fiction. I’ve enjoyed the literary references and the regular reciting of verse, at least.

The sense of dread and doom that the author creates is so vivid; I am reluctant to get dragged down into it, but I can’t resist. Louise Penny is a master!

It’s a delight. I love Harold, and now I begin to love Maureen as well. Queenie is a mystery, and I anticipate learning more about her as the conclusion draws near.

I am now an unwilling but curious reader, too far in to quit. The narrator seems rather pathetic, and his professor friend does not appear to merit the loyalty that he receives. Still, the past they describe has an allure even for me.

Harold and Maureen: sadly unhappy old married folks. Their lives are about to change when Harold makes a big and spontaneous decision to walk his letter to its recipient instead of mailing it. The giant tasks or challenges of life always can be reduced to just beginning, and then doing one more step. Cheering for Harold!

Harold’s adventure is the perfect inspiration for my workouts and walking. One foot in front of the other. Meanwhile, his wife is on her own inner journey. Wonderful.

Anita! The struggles of trying to pass as a white woman in a white world. I had not considered the betrayal that might be suggested to the African-Americans in Anita’s circle!

Delightful!

I am in mourning for Beauvoir’s drug addiction and rage against Gamache. Hope somebody kills the big boss... or he implodes. What an evil person.

Oh, Alice! I am so involved in her struggle, as well as the reactions and struggles of everyone around her. What a nightmare... and Alice is the brilliant woman who can’t stop the horrible progression of her own brain’s deterioration. As she says, if it were cancer, she could at least fight it.

I just cannot figure this one out. When it seemed evident that the identities were falling into place, they do not! And who is after Hal’s demise?

Improving. Glad I continued to give this a chance.

Slow start, but Kiki wants me to read this. LOL.

Oh, this is a good one! Harriet “Hal” reads Tarot cards all alone on a Brighton pier after her mother is killed. This is the story of Harriet’s past that comes unexpectedly into her current situation; her mother’s past is slowly revealed.

Oh my. Mary and her experiences are riveting... even when the back stories trickle out slowly.

This feels way too predictable in the sappiest of ways. Hope the little brother and the housekeeper can rescue the two weak women -or I will quit this one!

Oh Hal! What a brave girl. Your conscience is so negative, though, that I think that voice in your head is the Doomsday Debbie!

I can’t quit... fascinating!

Allie is dyslexic, probably undiagnosed (so far), and a master at hiding the fact that she is a 6th grade non-reader. Then she gets a new teacher and things at school look like they may change... sad and hopeful for this little girl so far.

Three sisters and their mother narrate the baby’s death and subsequent move to Philadelphia.