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hermetic

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4. Thanks!

Sun Mar 3, 2019, 02:40 PM

Mar 2019

Yeah, a little better every day.

Being without internet AND cable must have been awful. I can relate

So, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

"More than any book in recent memory, Land nails the sheer terror that comes with being poor, the exhausting vigilance of knowing that any misstep or twist of fate will push you deeper into the hole."―The Boston Globe

And the Elegy, also a tale of surviving poverty.

Pretty heavy stuff and hope we can someday have a country where it's not like that anymore.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 3, 2019? [View all] hermetic Mar 2019 OP

Sorry to hear you're under the weather, hermetic! Ohiogal Mar 2019 #1

Thanks! hermetic Mar 2019 #4

Yeah, I guess I'm on the same theme with these two books. Ohiogal Mar 2019 #9

I have two I'm reading right now... TDale313 Mar 2019 #2

Ahh, good times hermetic Mar 2019 #5

Just finished The Rule of One PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #3

Yeah, I agree hermetic Mar 2019 #7

At first I thought it was just Texas, PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #13

Some interesting sounding reads here Bayard Mar 2019 #6

Yes, this is a great place hermetic Mar 2019 #8

The Witch Elm by Tana French. So far, not my favorite of hers, but I'm only a quarter through. Squinch Mar 2019 #10

Hey! hermetic Mar 2019 #11

Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice shenmue Mar 2019 #12

Sounds good hermetic Mar 2019 #14

I'm reading Jericho's Road by Elmer Kelton pscot Mar 2019 #15

Thank you! hermetic Mar 2019 #16

Now I'm on to The Town House by Norah Lofts. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #17

You sold me hermetic Mar 2019 #21

Do. It's possible your library will have them. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #22

The Tattooist of Auschwitz mainstreetonce Mar 2019 #18

Just got that book for my wife. Right in her wheelhouse. Cuthbert Allgood Mar 2019 #19

A must-read hermetic Mar 2019 #20