The opening paragraph of Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House” is a gorgeous and elegiac piece of writing.

Oppenheimer. It’s a doorstop and I can only manage a few pages a day.

Oppenheimer. It’s a doorstop and I can only manage a few pages a day.

The series is the literary equivalent of the Winchester Mystery House. He will never finish because he’s afraid he will die when he does.

Reading Maid I was rooting for her. Then learned that she had a second child that she could not adequately support or parent. I was/am appalled. When she’s on this book tour, on podcasts and radio, does anyone ever push back about her choices? She’s the current queen of poverty porn and raking it in.