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1
Aug

Classic: E.A. Poe The Angel of the Odd

 

Quickscan:

  1. A skeptic (narrator) does not believe coincidence can determine one’s fate.
  2. The Angel of the Odd wants to convince him he is wrong.
  3. After the narrator endures a series of “singular” events….he repents.

Main Characters: 

  1. Narrator (unnamed)
  2. Responding to an apparently absurd story in a newspaper,
  3. …complains about the contemptible hoaxing
  4. for the sake of providing interesting reading material.
  5. Irony: Poe complains about  hoax stories….but he writes
  6. …them himself! The Angel of the Odd is just one example!

 

  1. The Angel of the Odd
  2. Speaks with a humorous German accent.
  3. The accent was easy to listen to but more difficult to read!
  4. Why does Poe use a German  accent?
  5. Poe had a rather superficial knowledge of German culture.
  6. He kept mocking  the mystical trend of German philosophy.
  7. Poe thought that the Germans are “ranting and raving”.

Setting:   a den in disarray… similar to th state of mind of the narrator

Action:     jumble of improbable misfortunes

  1. narrator falls asleep
  2. house burns down
  3. failed to renew insurance.
  4. two marriage proposals are rejected
  5. attemps suicide in a river
  6. a drunken crow steal his pants
  7. a hot air balloon saves his life
  8. and bottles of Krichenwasser knock sense into him!

Irony:

  1. Is the angel a figment of the narrators imagination
  2. …a drunken hallucination?
  3. The narrator clearly thinks that he is real.
  4. The Angel of the Odd ironically does
  5. NOT protect the narrator…(guardian angel)
  6. …it CAUSES accidents.

Conclusion:

  1. While listening to the audio version  during my morning walk
  2. …I missed so much in the story.
  3. Perhaps I was not awake yet.
  4. The story came to life once I read it closely.
  5. Things that seem trivial are essential.
  6. What was Poe reading just before the angel appeared?
  7. Who are these authors?
  8. Is this just random list of books
  9. ….or did Poe purposely select them?
  10. The list includes three epic poems
  11. (the Leonidas, the Epigoniad, and the Columbiad)
  12. an American romance (Sicily)
  13. a travel book (Lamartine’s Voyage en Orient)
  14. a collection of literary gossip (Curiosities).
  15. Time to investigate….
  16. Trivia: the author of Sicily….once as literary editor
  17. …rejected Poe’s  “The Tell-Tale Heart”  Oops!

Last thoughts:

  1. When I listened to the story I shrugged it
  2. off as a amusing but trivial piece of writing.
  3. Now that I have researched it…
  4. I appreciate Poe’s writing skills.
  5. Just 12 pages….but this is a bizarre story
  6. with many allusions  to the reading list of books on page 1
  7. ….that should not be missed.
  8. #Classic!
  9. I’ve started reading one of my Classic Club books:
  10. The Complete Short Stories by E.A. Poe. (29)
  11. I want to extend my stay with Poe whose genius is
  12. …unquestionable. These stories need to be
  13. read, digested and reviewed …one at a time.
  14. It will take many weeks to finish this book
  15. on my morning walks…a story a day!
9
Jul

Short stories: Like a House on Fire

 

Notes:

Flexion – excellent – great last sentence  – wife-husband relationship.

Ashes –  excellent – great last sentence –  son-mother and recently deceased father relationship.

Laminex and Mirrors – wonderful….very funny yet touching.
Narrator is an 18 yr cleaning girl in hospital who establishes a connection  with an old dying man.  The matron keeps a close eye on our young girl when she lingers too long with her new friend: ”matron calls her in a tone of permafrost…she snaps in an  enraged whisper.” The old man is whisked away by the girl for a surprise  hot steaming bath. ” Haven’t felt this way in years…weightless.” The old man also gets at the desired but forbidden cigarette from this young cleaner…he’s elated and says “Your blood is worth bottling.”

Tender – Honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life with the backdrop of an approaching appointment for the mother’s biopsy. She remains the Rock of Gibraltar for her family despite her fears.

Like a House on Fire – Hilarious description of father who is chief child-care provider (…suffering from lower back pain)…while he gets the Christmas decorations from the attic…puts the tree in the bucket with bricks to anchor it. The children are not in the Xmas mood but Dad says: “TV of off until every piece of tinsel is on the tree!” Family life and on Christmas eve and relationship with wife endearing and told in details we all see around the house! – Absolutely terrific!! It seems every story gets better and better! Bravo Cate Kennedy,  this was the BEST story!

 

Conclusion:

  1. These are the notes I made about the first five short stories.
  2. It seem every story got increasingly better!
  3. Unfortunately….the rest of the stories failed to dazzle me.
  4. The first 5 stories tasted like a sparking glass of champagne
  5. ….they went straight to my head!
  6. The last 10 stories tasted like sparkling water
  7. … refreshing but without the ‘bubble buzz’.
28
Jun

Classic: Thea Astley

 

Introduction:

  1. I love a good short story.
  2. Usually I review just one story to post on this blog.
  3. W. Trevor  and John Updike are favorites of mine,
  4. ..but a collection is the hardest thing to review.
  5. I want to give Thea Astley the attention she deserves and
  6. …have spent 4 days reading eight short stories!

 

Weak point:

  1. I felt only a few of the selections were real short stories.
  2. Instead Astely uses each ‘story’ as a continuation of
  3. Keith’s thoughts and adventures in Queensland.
  4. A short story must come to the point!
  5. A short story must reveal in 1st or 2nd
  6. paragraph the mood, theme and conflict.
  7. Astley fails on this point.
  8. In The Curate Breaker  there was a clear  conflict
  9. between the Catholic priest and Anglican minister.
  10. The resolution was believable and touching.
  11. This story made this reader pause and think.
  12. #Bravo

 

Conclusion

  1. I read these eight stories and have reviewed four.
  2. The first story was a disappointment and
  3. …I had to push myself to read the rest of the book.
  4. I was expecting a short story and got  what sounded
  5. …like the exposition of a novel!
  6. So you’ve been warned: the first story is a dud.
  7. But I kept  reading…giving Astely a chance to improve!

 

4 REVIEWS     I’ll let you discover the rest yourself!

 

North: Some Compass Readings: Eden

  1. Setting: Carins
  2. Title: refers to the first two sentences:
  3. “Let me draw you a map…put it just north of 20 and 146 east…
  4. sea bitten rind of coast…limbo for those who’ve lost direction.”
  5. Parents: Iris and Bernard are exact opposites:
  6. Iris: gorges on horoscopes, sports a lucky color and
  7. it always seems to be the Ides of March.
  8. Bernard: jocular, jaunty and tips his son an unsmiling
  9. wink as he he rattles his newspaper busily.
  10. Narrator:  Keith Leverson
  11. Note: Iris, Bernard and Keith are
  12. characters are from Astley’s book The Slow Natives.
  13. A suburban couple, Iris and Bernard, 
  14. …have drifted into the shallows of middle-aged boredom.
  15. Their fourteen-year-old son, Keith  is a stranger.

Plot:

  1. Fourteen-year-old son, Keith is now
  2. middle-aged, thinning blond hair and
  3. ..has lost one leg in a car accident
  4. …that was central in the book The Slow Natives.
  5. Keith sets out on a journey  from Carins
  6. to Falls Gorge on the Kuranda railway.
  7. Keith/Astley  rants about the influx of lean, arrogantly young
  8. Balmain and South Yarra drop-outs, 
  9. the new urban trendies and
  10. the  middle-aged straights trying to adopt the patois and local dress.
  11. Theme: landscape is beautiful in Queensland
  12. ….but you get more magic from strangers (the misfits).

 

Weak point: allusions

  1. The use of allusions in Astley’s novels is
  2. one of the elements of her style  that I enjoy reading.
  3. But in her short stories I think she has
  4. overreached herself and lost much of her focus. 

 

Weak point:  Tone

  1. The tone achieved by the use of allusions
  2. shifted from imaginative in her novels...
  3. to pedantic in the short stories.

 

Conclusion:

  1. This was NOT an easy read.
  2. Astley starts her story in the present but
  3. flashbacks to a month ago, then yesterday,
  4. …then the present again.
  5. It was hard to follow. 
  6. The author makes it even more complex….
  7. by filling the story with too many allusions.
  8. Brilliant writing….but not a well-balanced story.
  9. Thea Astely’s novels?   TOP! 
  10. Thea Astely’s short stories?   Not her strong point!
  • Allusion: poem Trade Winds by J. Masefield
  • Allusion:  Shakespeare’s Hamlet
  • Allusion: to Virgil  “Sera comans, Iris” (the late blooming…)
  • Allusion: D.H. Lawrence poem Green:
  • “…the gorge is evaporating in green light,
  • green into greeness as Lawrence might have said…”
  • ... Astely assumes we all know who Lawrence is.

 

 

The Curate Breaker

Conclusion:

  1. This was a normal short story….a pleasure to read
  2. …with a beginning, middle and end.
  3. The story centers around an insanely bitter conflict
  4. between the Roman Catholic priest and the Anglican canon.
  5. Father Rassini and Canon Morrow  are at odds
  6. …but their lives are heartbreakingly parallel.
  7. The tragedy is….neither the priest nor the canon
  8. see their uncharitable behavior.
  9. Canon Morrow flatters and shields his ego from blame
  10. when we make mistakes (berating his wife…severely, angrily)
  11. because he is doing God’s work.
  12. Father Rassini observes this behavior and is appalled.
  13. But this suave man of God realizes he is no better than Canon Morrow.
  14. Father Rassini has callously ill-treated his father
  15. …snapping and shouting at him when the elderly parent falters.
  16. Father Rassini suddenly leaves the house after seeing
  17. his frail, grey parent shelling peas for the evening meal.
  18. Father Rassini must spend some quiet time with God,
  19. asking Him to show him where he needs to change.

 

Hunting the Wild Pineapple

Conclusion:

  1. I was hoping to have a great time enjoying
  2. Astley’s humor and  finding out what
  3. in heaven’s name the wild pineapple meant.
  4. My enthusiasm waned.
  5. Why do bad souffles happen to good cooks?
  6. Why do dull stories….happen to good writers?
  7. This story started out with Astley’s keen observation of bored
  8. people  at a tropical Bed and Breakfast
  9. …where the pink gin, vodkas on ice
  10. …and stingers kept the guests
  11. in a permanent ‘happy-hour’.
  12. There was some sexual tension arising  among
  13. B&B owner, guests and two plantation workers (gay and bi).
  14. But nothing that made the story shine.
  15. Hunting the Wild Pineapple was a hoax to
  16. …take bored and slightly tipse guests
  17. …on a wild goose chase.
  18. This story had so much potential
  19. ..and I hoped it would entertain me as much as
  20. Boat Load of Home Folk,
  21. but this short story sadly #Collapsed.

 

A Northern Belle

Conclusion:

  1. Astley uses no alcohol, no allusions  only Clarice’s tears and embedded fears:
  2. Fear black men instilled by her mother
  3. Fear of sins of the flesh instilled by the nuns, Mother Suplice.
  4. Irony: her mother was determined her daughter Clarice would marry well
  5. ….but her only true love was Bixer, her dog.
  6. Weak point: 
  7. There is no real epiphany, no redemptive moment.
  8. Just a sad life that ends with a traumatized unmarried
  9. …50 yr old woman….screaming.
  10. #Disappointing, lacking imagination.

 

 

 

28
May

Memories of Youghal

Writer : W. Trevor
Title: Memories of Youghal
Theme: memories happy (familiar places, schools, stores)….unhappy (loneliness)
Setting: Youghal seaside resort town County Cork
Setting: terrace of the Hôtel les Galets in Bandol, France
Timeline: 1979, late April ( I calculated this out of information in the story)

Analysis:

1. Explain the title. Memories of Youghal   In what way is it suitable to the story?
a. Trevor uses ‘he remembered’ ..she remember several times in the short story to stress we are reading about memories.
b. Where is Youghal? Novelist W. Trevor spent some of his early years in Youghal, and featured the town in his short story. “Memories of Youghal”.  But we discover the conversations are taking place in Bandol, France on Côte d’Azur.
c. Trevor describes the beautiful Hôtel Les Galets and it’s surroundings ..mimosa, bougainvillea, oranges ripened, palm trees that flap in the breeze. This is so different from the place in the character’s minds…seaside coast of Ireland, sandy beach, shop near the lighthouse that sells Rainbow Toffees.

2. What is the predominant element in the story?   Characters
a. Trevor uses body language, gestures, glances to communicate tension
b. between Quillan and Miss Ticher (64 yr) and Miss Grimshaw (64 yr)
c. during their casual talks on the hotel terrace.
d. Detective Quillan: 45 yr.
e. While reading the story I feel is investigating … his own childhood!

3. Who is the single main character about whom the story centers?
a. Quillan: is the main character.  He is a detective (45 yr)
b. When a detective is in the story….who or what is he looking for?
c. Quillan is the boy at the beginning of the story.
d. The reader does to know that yet…..
e. Quillan is obsessed by the blows fate has forced upon him.
f. Had his parents not died…
g. Had a mystery woman succeeded in stealing him out of his pram…
h. …then he would have been a different man than he is now.

4. How does the story get started?
a. The narrator describes a character ‘he’ recalling
b. …memories of his childhood to an elderly woman on a hotel terrace.

5. Briefly describe the rising action of the story.
a. The action in the story is very subtle.
b. ‘He’ introduces himself as a detective who is
c. following an adulterous couple for her husband.
d. Quillan asks if he may have a casual conversation
e. with the elderly woman….
f. …so the couple won’t notice him.

6. What is the high point, or climax, of the story?
a. Quinlan with his eyes closed in warmth talks about
b. his childhood memories.
c. Three lines on page 53 are the emotional climax in the story.
d. The reader finally understands what is going on.
e. Quillan: “The woman wanted a child, Miss Ticher.
f. A child needs love.
g. Miss Ticher: ”A woman too,” whispered Miss Ticher.

7. Discuss the falling action or close of the story.
a. Miss Ticher’s thoughts: ‘She imagined…
b. — ironing his blazer
c. — his face as a child
d. The mood changes.
e. Miss Ticher thanks Quillan for his childhood memories
f. She watches him walk the length of the terrace.
g. Miss Ticher: “ How very cruel the world is.”

Strong point:
a. Drinking: is usually a part of Trevor’s stories
b. …red liquid(wine) and ice swirling in a glass of whisky.
c. Characters are imbibing, intoxicating, tipsy and a looseness about the lips
d. usually discloses secrets best kept silent.
e. Feelings: of sarcasm with hint of bitterness
f. sympathy is shrugged away.

Conclusion:

  1. This story was very good.
  2. Once I finished it I re-read the first
  3. …few pages looking for the clues I missed.
  4. There are a few lingering questions in my mind.
  5. How did Quillan find Miss Ticher?
  6. Well, isn’t that what a detective does….find people?
  7. Why did Quillan suspect  that
  8. …Miss Tricher was someone from his past?
  9. Trevor gives us some clues that Quillan is on a mission.
  10. “….leaning closer to Miss Ticher and staring intently into her eyes…’
  11. “ Miss Ticher and Miss Grimshaw, said Quillan,
  12. …slowly as though savoring the two names.”
  13. The body language….and manner of speaking indicate
  14. that Quillan knows something about  these two ladies.
  15. He knows they are part of the puzzle called his childhood.
  16. William Trevor’s short stories….never disappoint!
26
Apr

Rubik

 

Finished: 26.04.2018
Genre: 15 short stories
Rating: B
Review:

I read these stories in the train to Amsterdam.
I kept dozing off….but was not sure if
it was the writing or the fact that my alarm clock
got me out of bed at 04:30 AM.

I think it was the latter.

Weak point: The reader who is not digital savvy will
wonder what is Elisabeth Tan talking about?
“She Alt-Tabs to Indesign.
She toggles between serif and sans-serif body copy.
“Arch PDF’s the page …and sends it to Chris…”

Weak point: ironically many short stories are too, too long!

Strong point: These stories are filled with millennial’s
mischief and creativity. It is a sign of the times.
These stories offer the reader a new perspective in creative writing. The collection of interconnected narratives  mimics the shifting planes of a Rubik’s Cube. Characters appear and disappear. Clever….

Conclusion:
“Like when someone you know dies and several years
pass and technology advances.
It creates a new normal.”
Story: The Page Has Been Left Blank Intentionally
Are these stories an example of the new normal?

But I must in all fairness admit...The cover is a great visual that reflects the twisting/turning of events and characters in the stories.
It is quite an achievement to stay in control of the narrative and cast of characters (in different forms) as is done by Elisabeth Tan.

Last Thoughts:
This collection of short stories may appeal to others
but  personally I still prefer something more in a narrative.
Raymond Carver, William Trevor, Shirley Jackson give the reader a text
full of edges and silences, haunted by things not said,
not even to be guessed at.
#ReadTheBook by the new generation
…and decide for yourself.

 

25
Mar

#Read Ireland Dermot Healy

 

  • Author: Dermot Healy (1947 – 2014)
  • Title : The Collected Short Stories
  • Published: 2015
  • Story: The Island and the Calves

 

 

Who was Dermot Healy?

  1. He was one of the most distinctive voices in recent fiction and poetry
  2. – not just Irish fiction and poetry.
  3. He once said of Franz Kafka, one of his abiding influences:
  4. “He taught me a lot about the normal and the abnormal,
  5. …and the distance between them.
  6. Contemporary Irish fiction…think of Dermot Healy
  7. His writing reflects the fine line between what appears and
  8. …as Healy said: “What I think is there.”

 

The Island and the Calves

  1. Jim: (Irish)
  2. “Jim felt he might lose control of each and every moment.
  3. “….every turbulence of wind ad rain had deepened
  4. the reflections in the now calm lake.
  5. He had begon to name with awe each part of the outside world…”
  6. Edward: (English)
  7. Job 6:7 ” The things that my soul refused to touch
  8. …are as my sorrowful meat.”  (are loathsome to me) (pg 19)
  9. Dermot describes an  Easter weekend  in Sussex
  10. …as Edward is visiting his friend Jim and his wife (Margaret) and their children.
  11. Jim and Edward have been friends for a long time.
  12. Jim delights in nature, “Edward will not listen or look at the trees and water.”
  13. One thing Jim and Edward do share deeply is a
  14. appreciation of the  spiritual/religious world.
  15. They enjoy Haydn’s ‘The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross (music).
  16. They set up an antenne to pick up the Mass in Irish from Raio Éireann
  17. to allow the chants from Jim’s home country permeate the house.
  18. Motif: Dermot Healy uses the winds as points on a compass.
  19. The winds channel in a low hum that  sparks reflection.
  20. The winds blow…
  21. from the east (general sheet of cold),
  22. from the south (softened and warmed) and
  23. from the west (passion departs and reason returns).
  24. Moral:
  25. The sorrowful day (Holy Saturday) is followed by the joyous (Easter Sunday)
  26. …”when man’s heart might take that agile journey
  27. towards discovering anew
  28. ..still points on that compass held firm” (pg 23)

 

Conclusion:

  1. Dermot Healy is truly a talented writer
  2. …that has fallen between the cracks.
  3. I had to read this story (6 pages) at least four times.
  4. Healy describes  Jim who is haunted by a sense of instability.
  5. Jim finds a sense of moral strength  in nature
  6. …where the winds blow
  7. …North – East – South and West during an Easter weekend.
  8. Edward is the foil.
  9. The foil moves the more important character
  10. …to react in ways the
  11. …might not have found expression without such opposition!
  12. Jim is more fully revealed to the reader and to himself.
  13. The principle of continuity:
  14. Calves will find shelter from the storm and
  15. fodder from the farmers.
  16. Geese will always emigrate in winter.
  17. The  hare with “long girl’s thighs and legs”
  18. will always make a joyous…fling around the apple trees.
  19. This flow in nature extends into the spiritual world.
15
Mar

Anna Sargo-Ryan You Know How It Is (short story)

  • Author: Anna Spargo-Ryan
  • Title: You Know How It Is
  • Published: 2018    @islandmagtas  #Island152

 

Conclusion:

  1. You Know How It Is  by Anna Spargo-Ryan is a story
  2. I found in the literary magazine Island nr 152.
  3. The magazine is shipped to me …all the way from Hobart Tasmania!
  4. There is some great writing and writers to be discovered ‘down under’.
  5. The Anna Spargo-Ryan  has learned the first lesson in writing:
  6. “hook”  the reader in the first sentence.
  7. “The first thing Les Harrison catches on his
  8. …new line is a shark with his wife’s hand inside”.
  9. This shock start sets the stage .
  10. This is going to be a husband (Les) who
  11. …discovers his missing wife…dead (Claire).
  12. Claire announces earlier (flashback) that  she is traveling
  13. …with some teachers to Sidney for a conference,
  14. …no partners allowed.
  15. Les is afraid his wife is leaving him.
  16. Spargo-Ryan stitches the layers of the narrative together
  17. …alternating the present (5x) with flashbacks (4x).
  18. She creates a seam of tension  that kept pulling me through the story.
  19. I discovered Anna Spargo-Ryan  in The Best Australian Essays 2016.
  20. Her story  How to Love Football
  21. …about her grandfather and his favorite football team the Norwood Redlegs
  22. …was heartwarming,  good-feeling story.
  23. In You Know How It Is 
  24. Anna Spargo-Ryan shows her darker side with a whiff of humor.

 

3
Mar

#Read Ireland Kevin Barry

 

Writer : Kevin Barry
Title short story: Deer Season
Published: The New Yorker, October 10 2016
Theme: Guilt (breaking the law); feeling of isolation
Setting: Province of Connacht, Ballymote, Co. Silgo
Timeline: 5 days in August…then the story ends in October

 

 

Who is Kevin Barry?

  1. Kevin Barry’s debut story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms,
  2. won the Rooney Prize for Literature in 2007.
  3. His short fiction has appeared most recently in The New Yorker.
  4. His novel, City of Bohane, was published in
  5. 2011 and won International Dublin Literary Award 2013.

 

Title: Deer Season

  1. At the end of the story the reader
  2. …can see the similarities between
  3. …a young deer and Edward.
  4. He  is frightened of what is to
  5. …become of him in the neighborhood.
  6. He feels hunted.

 

Structure:

  1. Paragraphs: (26)
  2. Dialogue:  61 short lines of dialogue
  3. young girl (remains nameless) Edward and her father.

 

Characters:

  1. Young nameless schoolgirl (17)
  2. She wore a cardigan – a gray
  3. …might seem a little nunly.
  4. “She declares herself a Romantic and
  5. …bare winter was her idyll.”

 

  1. Edward (35 )…with scruffy hair
  2. …rents cottage in the forest.
  3. His bungalow is filled with
  4. disheartening musk of adult maleness
  5. ...there was something military about the neatness.
  6. He had the hunted look of rural poverty.
  7. His clothes were not good,
  8. …army surplus with ugly stout boots.
  9. Edward stepping carefully  about…
  10. like a heron.

 

  1. Backround information:
  2. Her father is on the farm
  3. …her mother is dead and
  4. …she has en older brother William.

 

Plot: 

  1. This adventure start out… .
  2. She purposely attracts a young man for
  3. …her clever idea of a summer fling.
  4. She didn’t have any great desire for the man,
  5. …but she liked his voice and he wasn’t fat.
  6. It was just a fun thing to do.
  7. But this summer fling has dire consequences
  8. …for vulnerable Edward (35 yr)
  9. He is a loner and feels…..just this once.
  10. He shall probably never have another chance.

 

Tone:  Gothic

  1. October dark fell.
  2. The night folded into quiet of its soft enclosure. 
  3. It was moonless and the great dark pressed in.
  4. The chill from the river,
  5. …fingers of mist, a dampness rose.
  6. The last remnants  of light
  7. …clawed in weak scratches across the sky.
  8. She walked beneath a cloak of widowly despair.

 

Setting:

  1. Edwards house was  clean, tidy, reeked of animal want
  2. …damp pebble-dash bungalow (exterior wall finish).
  3. Misery essayed everywhere.
  4. There were lentils soaking on the draining board
  5. …he tired to scrub tea mug with index finger under the running tap.

 

Strong point: closure

  1. This adventure starts out…
  2. with the girl touching Edward:
  3. “...pads of her fingertip touch
  4. …his skinny biceps – like a dog’s muscle, twitched madly”
  5. Kevin Barry bookends the story with…
  6. “She made for home and the pads of her feet beat
  7. out the new soft rhythm of her power.
  8. She was stiff from the cold and felt many years older.”

 

Conclusion:

  1. Kevin Barry…could be the
  2. new Irish short story writer
  3. I’ve been looking for!
  4. This was an absolutely wonderful story
  5. with and under tone of tragedy
  6. …and loss of innocence.
  7. The young girl does not know
  8. the ‘weight’ of her sensual powers
  9. ….until she gets the freedom to use them.
  10. #MustRead Irish author

 

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