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Happy New Year! That was a great review. I like to read a few Classics during the year, but I never thought about this one. I tend to read the British. Going on my list! Hope 2023 is a good year for you and Donna!

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Happy New Year to you, too, Kate! Here’s to a book-filled 2023!

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Thanks, Kate! Great, as always, to hear from you and I appreciate the kind word. Hope 2023 is good for you and yours as well. Your note about British classics reminded me of this quote I read recently in a piece by Merve Emre: 'I believed then, as I sometimes still do, that any book first written in French counted for four books written in English.' I'm keeping this in mind as I set my reading goals for the year lol!

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a street as long as a gunshot is a very interesting description

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Thanks, Resh! Happy New Year!

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This was such a great review I'm convinced that I need to read this novel at some point in the near future (I normally prefer to read books written in the 21st Century).

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Thanks, Nia! I hope you enjoy it!

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Its' been decades since I've read Mdme. Bovary. I remember struggling with the character so much then. I wonder how I would read her now? I'm interested to find out.

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Thanks, Elizabeth! I hope you give it a second chance!

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