This is a beautifully-written book, but rarely can a wedding night have gone so wrong since Tess Durbeyfield married Angel Clare. Writers of misery memoirs would do well to study how MacEwan handles the possibility of abuse in the background. It's delicate and ambiguous, but it's there and it informs the rest of the novel. There have been conflicting opinions about the book but I think it is worth reading for the quality of the writing and the evocative prose.
Day 235; Book 226
21 Purrecious Pictures of Cats Showing Off the Fine Art of the Lazy Sploot
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Sploot alert! When a cat flops down like a fuzzy pancake with their little
back legs kicked out like they're about to launch into a jazz split — that,
my...
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