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“The Air Had a Taste As of Something Mixed with Art.”
(Post #1: The Ambassadors, Books First and Second; beginning – p. 83)
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“In That House You Made Perhaps a Sin. A Sin to Touch a Holy Thing, Is it Not?”
(Post #6; Chapters 38-57; pp. 171-End)
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“We’ll Make Out All Right. Lili Always Does.”
(Post #5; Chapters 38-57; pp. 171-End)
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“They Live Away. It is Their Intention to Live Away.”
(Post #4; Chapters 20-37; pp. 87-170)
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“The Grand Was Leo.”
(Post #3: Chapters 20-37; pp. 87-170)
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“Lili Had Turned the Key. The Key was Bea”
(Post #2: Chapters 1-19; pp. 1-86)
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“That Note, that Broken Blow, as of Glass Splitting, a Wallop to the Brain…”
(Post #1: Chapters 1-19; pp. 1-86)
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The Kindly Ones: That Ending!
A video podcast with Thomas Flynn
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July 2025

Reflections on Reading The Kindly Ones
In my last post I shared some of my disappointments with the ending of The Kindly Ones, my questions about why Littell sped up the action in the end…
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Our Next Big Book Begins August 4: Foreign Bodies & The Ambassadors
Reading Schedule Below
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“All the Judges are Dead or Gone.”
(Post #23; Gigue pp. 917-End)
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The Delights of Immersing Yourself in a Henry James Novel
The New Big Book Kicks Off August 4th
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