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A Good Man Is Hard To Find
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9.0/10
1. The Life You Save May Be Your Own 10/10
Grandma gets what she deserves.
2. A Temple of The Holy Ghost 10/10
A big moon-faced nun came bustling to the door to let them in and embraced her mother and would have done the same to her but that she stuck out her hand and preserved a frigid frown, looking just past the sister's shoes at the wainscotting. They had a tendency to kiss even homely children, but the nun shook her hand vigorously and even cracked her knuckles a little and said they must come to the chapel, that benediction was just beginning. You put your foot in their door and they got you praying, the child thought as they hurried down the polished corridor.
A Circle In The Fire 8/10
The homecoming gone awry. One's notion of home is never what one remembers.
Good Country People 8/10
The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans. All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. ... And lost a leg because of it!
The Displaced Person 8/10
1. The Life You Save May Be Your Own 10/10
Grandma gets what she deserves.
2. A Temple of The Holy Ghost 10/10
A big moon-faced nun came bustling to the door to let them in and embraced her mother and would have done the same to her but that she stuck out her hand and preserved a frigid frown, looking just past the sister's shoes at the wainscotting. They had a tendency to kiss even homely children, but the nun shook her hand vigorously and even cracked her knuckles a little and said they must come to the chapel, that benediction was just beginning. You put your foot in their door and they got you praying, the child thought as they hurried down the polished corridor.
A Circle In The Fire 8/10
The homecoming gone awry. One's notion of home is never what one remembers.
Good Country People 8/10
The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans. All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. ... And lost a leg because of it!
The Displaced Person 8/10
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Reading Progress
November 18, 2019
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Started Reading
November 18, 2019
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November 19, 2019
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30.0%
"He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly."
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54
November 20, 2019
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52.78%
"She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint. She did not steal or murder but she was a born liar and slothful and she sassed her mother and was deliberately ugly to almost everybody. She was eaten up also with the sin of Pride, the worst one."
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95
November 20, 2019
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53.33%
"She made fun of the Baptist preacher who came to the school at commencement to give the devotional. She would pull down her mouth and hold her forehead as if she were in agony and groan, “Fawther, we thank Thee,� exactly the way he did and she had been told many times not to do it. She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick."
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November 22, 2019
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Finished Reading
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Dec 03, 2019 12:22AM
Hi, Julie. This sounds like a nicebook to read.
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Markus wrote: "Hi, Julie. This sounds like a nicebook to read."Markus, I'm not quite sure how to answer that -- because this book contains some of the strangest people I've ever met in fiction. They are very much the same sort of characters that one would meet in William Faulkner, and they haven't many (if any) redeeming qualities. Even the "nice" ones are nasty and strange. But, I found it all oddly compelling, and Flannery O'Connor paints words like no other! I chose quotes only because I'm still mulling over what I've read, and trying to make sense of it all.
I would say that Joy is living my ideal life from that description. My mother never told anyone what I had studied either. (But then, she never told them what I worked at either. Nor when I was coming to town.)
ἀρχαῖο� (arkhaîos) wrote: "I would say that Joy is living my ideal life from that description. My mother never told anyone what I had studied either. (But then, she never told them what I worked at either. Nor when I was com..."That little snippet is alluring, RK, but only fleetingly, for Joy (and what a misnomer that was!) is quite a bizarre character.
For the record, my mother told "everyone" when I was coming to town, and that's its own kind of hell. ; )
