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1970

The year of 1970 CE.

Some facts about 1970:

  • Earth Day is first celebrated
  • Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles
  • The Who performs at the Metropolitan Opera House
  • The Kent State University shootings occur
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • Martial law is imposed in Poland
  • 28 victims of Thalidomide receive compensation
  • Nelly Sachs dies
  • E.M. Forster dies
  • Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion
Contemporary American Literature Non-Fiction

Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays

I’ve decided to review two of Didion’s works (partially because they have been waiting in my to-review stacks for a while, and partially because this is post #222).

March 18, 2024June 24, 2024 by S. Hargrave — Comment on Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Play It As It Lays

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
Contemporary American Literature

The Bluest Eye

There is no singular process that recommends a book to me or by which I choose what to read when. My reading tastes can change with a given day or even a given hour — which is why I tend to read about eight to ten books at once. This is a review of The Bluest Eye.

April 25, 2020June 24, 2024 by S. Hargrave — Comment on The Bluest Eye
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