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Title: Mostly nostalgia
Review: I expected something a little more interesting from Shirley Jackson, author of the classic horror stories "The Lottery" and "The Haunting of Hill House." This is a book June Cleaver could have written if she'd had Jackson's facility with the English language. The stories about Jackson's children and her trials with her old home are charming, but the overall effect is achingly dated. Was there really a time, not so long ago, when women cared deeply about whether they served coffee in mugs or demitasse cups? If so, hurrah for women's lib.This book is good for nostalgia, if you want to remember a time when moms stayed home with their kids, couples played bridge, and the most rascally thing a kid could do was throw rocks at the neighbor's boy.
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