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dixiegrrrrl

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6. Anthony Trollope's Barchester series

Sun Aug 11, 2019, 05:36 PM

Aug 2019

which was made into an excellent BBC series way back in 1982, with a young, but wonderful Alan Rickman as the famous oily, unctuous character Obadiah Slope.
Trollope and Dickens always satisfy my need to banish the outside world for an afternoon.

Non-fiction:
Michael Lewis's Boomerang, a look at how each of several European countries dealt with the 2008 crash, which explains why they are still screwed today.
Lewis can make any complicated financial issue easier to understand, plus he is very humorous in doing so.

More non-fiction: Trump's tweets. n/t

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