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Saturday, March 22, 2014

Starting Over by Elizabeth Spencer 202 pages



This is a collection of short stories I just plucked from the new book shelf, and I am delighted to have found it.  I think it has been a long time since I read stories like this about Southerners and I enjoyed them.  In two of the stories the characters think things and then wonder if, in fact, they have spoken aloud.  There is a lot of depth to the characters, even in the shorter stories.  One story ends with no period after the last word, and it makes sense.


One character exclaims, “happy damn!”, which is how I felt while reading these well written stories.

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