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Part of the District of Wonders Network, featuringaturing Starship, Sofer, and Far-Fetched

Fables, everyone has a story in the District of Wonders. Come and find yours.

Good evening, Children of the Night.

I've completed reading Henry James as the turn of the screw.

And my final opinion on it is that I had forecasted a few weeks ago.

I think that some of my lackluster feeling about this classic story is one of distance of time.

There are elements to it that may have made more sense to people a couple generations before me,

but maybe are missing from the current culture that I grew up in.

As I said before, I'm in the minority on my opinion on the story, and that's fine.

If you like the story, I wish I could be more like you. I've now talked into a slightly longer read, the classic Rosemary's Baby,

and although I'm only a third of the way through the story, I'm really enjoying it. Ira Levin has

done a very good job of laying the groundwork for strange happenings in dialing up

the weirdness at a pace that keeps the reader interested but doesn't do it with a heavy hand.

I feel that I'm right about the part of the story where things really get going.

I also watched two movies recently.

One was the shape of water, which I had never seen before, and somehow missed having the nature of the movie explained to me, despite

having it been up for numerous movie awards not so long ago. I had incorrectly presumed that it was

a horror film. It is a monster movie, and the Amazonian monster in this movie

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