My Book Group

has been together for more than 25 years. I shall not out the GD's on the internet, but I frankly don't relate to anything in this NYT story. Still, you might. Let me know.
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Still Plowing

the fertile fields of lit., and ran across this review of a book called A Stopover in Venice.

Walker's prose can come across like she's straining to write capital-L literature, but that likely won't scare off the book groups. (Aug.)