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It won’t surprise you all to learn that I really loved this book. I wrote in my Goodreads review This was on my to-read list for years and years. I…

May 2

We’re nearing the end! I feel like it flew by. I’m not sure if this will satisfy the people who have felt that the book is too slow or meandering, but…

Apr 21

There are several pictures of Ignatius that float around online, and I’ve waited to see when the references to them will appear in the text itself…

Apr 15

To me, a true triumph of this book is its portrayal of human bickering. There’s something so loving about how the book presents people snapping at each…

Apr 6

Ignatius’s job at Levy Pants was never long for this world, but I confess that I found myself a little disappointed that it came and went as fast as it…

Mar 30

When last we saw Ignatius, after a bout of truly inspired terrible behavior at the movie theater that followed his usual mistreatment of his mother, he…

Mar 23

This one really starts out with a bang. From the jump, I dug into John Kennedy Toole’s particular prose style, which I find witty and inventive in a…

Mar 16

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