A Ripple From The Storm AND Landlocked by Doris Lessing (Children of violence #3 AND #4)
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
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