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[semperfiona]

Finally finished the book I was reading: The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley. It took me longer than it has taken me to read a novel in many years. I think I have been reading it for at least two weeks, half an hour here or there. It's written in a dense 19th-century style, and I've just been terrifically busy. The story is fascinating, however: it's about Kansas Territory, and the intense fighting there between abolitionists and southern-rights advocates that presaged the Civil War.

Now, though, I'm going to log off and go upstairs with Laurell's Caress of Twilight. I think that will be a much quicker read.