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[bookelfe]

I just finished reading Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer Will Show -- a deeply weird, depressing, idealistic, fascinating, occasionally horrible book. I think I loved it but I don't know at all whether I feel OK telling anybody else to read it, so I'm just going to talk about it and we'll see where that gets us.

Summer Will Show -- set in 1848 but

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[rahkan]

Wow, have been eyeing this book for years but now definitely want to read it! I really liked Warner's LOLLY WILLOWES: it's about a woman who's so oppressed by her family that she turns to witchcraft and eventually makes a deal with Satan =]