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It's finally the weekend, and I'm exhausted. Mid-week my shingles began bothering me a bit. No blisters or anything. But this weird pin-pricks that came out of nowhere. And the patch - had a little weird stingy soreness.
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On the way home from work - I passed a huge white tent being put up in the middle of our little new plaza (or piazza) that is the space between Carnival Fruit and Vegetable Store and Wallgreens. The Bengali (Bangladesh)
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I thought on my way home - how lucky I am to live in such a diverse community and neighborhood. It's changed so much over time. My workplace is pleasantly diverse, as is my living area, my church and my neighborhood.

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Making my way through Turn of the Screw - I've discovered Henry James works better read aloud, or listened to, then read. I think it is all the flowery language and description. He doesn't tend to have a lot of dialogue and I grow weary of the description - when reading. But listening - it works very well. Audio actually works better without too much dialogue - because - it's hard to tell who is talking. Emma Thompson is excellent, she can do multiple voices. And has an ability to clearly state the words.
One of the better readers, as is Richard Armitage, who is quite popular.

I'm rather enjoying it. It's not at all like the film adaptations. Although I can't remember the one with Deborah Kerr. I did read the play once, but can't remember it either.

Also making my way through Starling House - which appears to be a tale about a House built over Hell. It delves into America's nasty past history of slave ownership. Apparently Nathan (a slave) tried to dig away from his evil white masters, who chained him to a coal gang. And he managed to convince a young woman who was engaged to one of them, and horribly abused by them, that instead of committing suicide, she should go down into the mines and find what he found and use that to reap her revenge. We don't know yet what she found - but it came with a price. It's kind of an antibellium tale of just retribution against those who use others for money and gain.

Similar to The Devil Takes You Home in that sense, except told from a female perspective, and in a more positive light.
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