#Update: 01.08.2024
LITERATURE: Edna O’Brien
- The novelist and playwright died on July 27th, aged 93.
- They burned her book.
- Priests denounced it from the pulpit.
- In her hometown they burned it in the parish grounds,
- after the rosary.
- Some people, Edna O’Brien’s mother told her,
- …had even fainted as it was burned.
- That must have been the smoke, she had retorted.
- #MustRead
01.08.2024 – TEMP 20C …not so hot today.
MORNING: After that awful Tump interview yesterday by NABJ attacking Harris’s race watching CNN …comments!
READ: FINISHED “Trump’s Peace – Barak Ravid (good…but too, too long)
NEWS: Gershkovich, Evan (Wall Street Journal journalist) + Paul Whelan…released from Russia!
Funny, having just read a tweet from Trump.
In a post on his Truth Social platform on Thursday, Trump said that Gershkovich, whom the U.S. State Department deems wrongfully held, would be released almost immediately after the presidential election “but definitely before I assume office.”“Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!” the post said.
Well, Putin had something to say about that today! BOOM! Huge PR boost for Biden Administration…and very bad day for Trump’s inflated ego!
FILM CHALLENGE: Veep SE 4 episodes 5-6
ELECTION: This is the projected electoral map 01.08.2024…with Democratic win
- “Holding the blue wall” MI-WI-MN
- “Holding” NV-AZ-GA
- Losing PENNSYLVANIA (…but what happend if Shapiro (Gov Penn) becomes VP pick?
- So let’s see what happens in November! HARRIS 284 – TRUMP 254
This is what happened in November 2020
NancyElin.blog 
Hi Nancy! Which Edna O’Brien book are you talking about, please? Thanks!
O’Brien’s works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), has been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland after the Second World War. The book was banned and denounced from the pulpit.
It is an Irish classic!
Thanks! I added it to my TBR and I see it is part of a trilogy!