Bits and pieces from our little corner of Texas.
Practically every review I’ve seen online for this book raves about it, and nearly everyone I’ve talked to about it IRL, too. I guess I’m a bit of an outlier for just feeling kind of meh about it.
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The Blind Owl is one of those rare works that so effectively depicts a person’s descent into dark madness that it threatens to drag the reader under, too. It reminded me a bit of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, albeit much more violent.
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I’d recommend this book to cross-stitchers who’d like something message-focused to work on, particularly to beginners who are uninterested in the typical kits offered by big-box crafting supply stores, as well as crafters who just prefer physical patterns to a digital ones.
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I think this is well worth tracking down for anyone who is interested in adding an atypical classic work to their to-read list, but especially for modern graphic novel readers who want to get a taste of what the form was like at its inception.
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It’s a story that should be required reading for any student of the history of our country, personalizing as it does the horrors of slavery — but it’s also the kind of book that a reader has to brace for before jumping in.
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This is a fairly remarkable book in that it is a story told from the viewpoint of a loser in a political struggle; many losers in history have been censored or entirely silenced.
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This is the sort of book that sticks with you even long after you’re done reading it. If you have room in your reading life for a memoir and haven’t picked this one up yet, I highly recommend that you put it on your list.
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I have to be honest here; I could barely finish the book.
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