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The Heart's Invisible Furies

39Leave it.

A long Irish book. It is not an American immigrant story, and it is not a hearth to copy.

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The review

Boyne is writing Ireland, not the Irish in America. It is on this shelf because it was named, and because a house should not quietly refile it as an immigrant epic. The parish in the novel is an enemy. Some of that enmity has a cause. A people reading only this book would think the faith had no other face.

Not for the family evening. Not the Irish-American story. If you want that, start with the parish and the crossing, not with a quarrel conducted entirely on the other shore.

Journal

Keep The Heart's Invisible Furies in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Consider this

The Hunger Games

53 instead of 39

The Hunger Games is still a novel book, and it scores 53 instead of 39. What you gain is household: She takes her sister's place.

The eight

4
Industry
Work is background to a life told as a series of reckonings.
3
Household
The family he is given fails him. The families he makes are fragile.
3
Piety
The Church is the pressure. The novel is against it, not inside it.
5
Courage
He tells the truth late, at a cost.
3
Republic
Ireland is the country. America is not the subject.
3
Temperance
The book is frank about desire. It is not a model of limit.
7
Truth
It is honest that a pious culture can crush a person and still be a culture.
3
Stewardship
What it hands on is a protest, not a house.

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The Godfather

35Leave it.

The loyalty is real and aimed at the wrong throne. The novel is less pretty than the film and just as seductive.

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The review

The book is on the shelf because Italian-American readers have had it handed to them as if it were their epic. It is not their epic. It is a story about a tribal virtue, loyalty, with the law pulled out. Puzo is franker on the page than the film is about the grubbiness. He is still selling the power.

Read it only if you will say the sentence out loud: a family that outranks the law is a gang. Then go read Talese, or Di Donato, for people who were not the gang.

Journal

Keep The Godfather in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 35. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Crossing

50 instead of 35

The Crossing is still a novel book, and it scores 50 instead of 35. What you gain is courage: He keeps a promise to an animal at a cost no one will thank him for.