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I feel better. I am older (61) and not a lawyer, but the only books I now enjoy reading are Victorian novels of the Trollope, Eliot and Brontë sisters sort. I am irritated that there is not more Jane Austen to re-read. I have ventured out here and there to more modern British authors: Barbara Pym, Anita Brookner, Margaret Drabble and her sister A.S. Byatt but am running out of books that depict the quotidian details and domestic banter I crave. I am not sure why I need to read about the merits of certain frocks and bonnets, but I do. It is odd to stare blankly when someone asks if I’ve read the latest “it” novel, but other than Elena Ferrante I don’t like any of them.

I am now turning to streaming. I just watched Thackeray’s Vanity Fair mini-series (with Martin Clunes/Doc Martin) and am now enjoying Gentleman Jack. I loved Downton Abbey, the Crown, all  the Austen iterations and will try Father Brown. I have never been to England and have no real desire to visit as I know it would be like Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris. [/quote]

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