CBR 10 BINGO Square: Birthday! (August 28, 1924) Best for: People who enjoy her style of writing, I’m guessing. In a nutshell: Istina is mentally ill and being ‘treated’ at an in-patient facility. For nine years. Worth quoting: “Later, the same nurses will become impatient with their charges; but at first they are full of sympathy.” “Few of the people who roamed the dayroom would have qualified as acceptable heroines, in popular taste; few were charmingly uninhibited eccentrics.” Why I chose it: I’ve been having […]
