End of Year

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Mary Beth and I did an off-cycle Fresh Market run for a few things last night. Not a whole lot else, just a lot of reading mostly. Mary Beth finished reading to me The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson. Then later I finished reading Literal Madness: 3 Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti/My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini/Florida by Kathy Acker (calling "Florida" a "novel" is pretty generous though, I mean, calling it a "novella" would be exceedingly generous, it's definitely a straight up short story and not even a long one at that...I guess "2 novels and 1 short story" didn't have the snappy ring to it to place on the cover though!). So it was goofy, but I had this consuming drive to finish it before the end of the year. So, I knew I was going to finish the first book in the omnibus before the year was over, so then my dumb pedantic brain is mildly concerned over finishing part of a book that's in itself a separate book (outside of this volume) in one year and the rest of the book in another year and I was making peace with this "conundrum" but then I made a calculation and realized if I really pushed it I could finish the whole book this year so the past few days have been a little bit of a reading frenzy and then I finished a little ahead of schedule last night. So...go me?