On Chesil Beach-The Novella Challenge

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed by doing nothing.”
                                                       ~On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan
 
For me, this is the penultimate sentence of this novella, a  deeply affecting character study of a young English couple and the events that transpire during their wedding night on Chesil Beach in 1962.  Edward and Florence come [...]

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Challenging Myself…Again

The ravenous reader, being true to form once again, has succumbed to the lure of another challenge.  I know - I said “only one.”  But there’s something so enticing about all these lovely, organized reading opportunities (not to mention the darling blog buttons that accompany them, although I’ve not quite mastered the art of adding them [...]

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