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Dreary February

 

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;

Thy fate is the common fate of all,

Into each life some rain must fall,

Some days must be dark and dreary.

        -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Psychological fiction

Margaret Forster has died and I am reminded how much I have liked her novels. So I requested her 2013 novel, The Unknown Bridesmaid, from the Spokane Library. It's about a London psychologist remembering an incident from her youth.

When you search for a book in the library database, they suggest "Similar Titles."

The title offered as similar to this book is The Brothers Karamazov. Now it's been a while since I read Dostoevsky, but I remember enough about this novel to realize that in no way does it resemble a Margaret Forster novel, fine as her novels are. 

I'm tempted to re-read the Dostoevsky and write a comparison. But probably not tempted quite enough.