The Confederacy of Bookworms
Bookworm
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
LZ: Here are the books that we have in common, and to see how amazingly different love can be for the same object. In Youth is Pleasure by Denton Welsh, The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead. I want to see the one you don't like. Is Darkness and Day by Ivy Compton Burnett? Well, she looked exactly like the card of Old May. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. This is a book. A better woman that didn't really want to have a child, but felt like she had to. He grew up into being like a Columbine killer.
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