I have finally finished Three Lives by Gertrude Stein, and I am glad to be done with it. All three women in the story were so tragic and sad but not particularly likeable. The one thing they all had in common was living in Bridgepoint - otherwise the stories had nothing to do with each other (unless one of the Mathildas in The Gentle Lena was the Mathilda in The Good Anna).
The most difficult thing about this book was that I kept feeling like I had already read it. There was so much repetition - complete sentences in their entirety were duplicated at different points in the stories - especially in Melanctha. I think I will be giving myself quite a bit of time off before I tackle one of the other Stein books on the list.
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