Tilla (slave girl) is planning to run away. Medicus (Ruso) is little by little falling in love with her. We have two or three dead slave girls. Ruso is sort of searching for the murderer. I've decided that this is a chick book. I'll make it through, hoping the murder stuff grows stronger . . . but this will be my last Downie book unless a dramatic change. I can't say I'm learning much about Britannia from any of this.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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