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Nora's dormant rage, which her mother warned would one day awaken, drives her on and on, even as the reader's inner pantomime audience wants to cry, "Stop!" "The Woman Upstairs" is not a pretty read, but that is precisely what makes it so hard to put down.
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The figures don't make for pretty reading.
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Her memoir of these events is a pretty horrifying read; it is titled Down Below as if the experience had involved a spiritual descent to the underworld; indeed her paintings often describe places or states that hover between the ordinary, everyday world and another zone of dreams or death.
It's a pretty depressing read if you're idealistic like me, and wish that more people would listen to the other side more often because we're all a bunch of dumb humans, anyway.
As someone who's had a years-long front-row seat to Russia's efforts to influence U.S. politics, former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has a pretty solid read on what we can expect from the 2018 midterms.
There's really nothing new in it, and it won't tell you which is the best of course, but in terms of explaining just why the selection is the way it is (if you don't already know), it's a pretty good read — suitable to forward to Aunt Estella.
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But instead, I'm dropping dough on new running sneakers, my favorite Under Armour running shorts in every color I can find and a pretty awesome (read: pretty expensive) Garmin watch.
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