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Inspired by a post I saw on reddit Have read about Whisper and have seen some models on it.
Anybody have experience in using it on windows or android?

In Android, I know that Sayboard and FUTO(source available, but has restrictions on repackaging or something like that) allow import of models trained for languages

But have not found any files that work for Malayalam. Does anyone know any that can be used for Malayalam?

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I will host my regular Saturday livestream on March 7, beginning at 9 am Pacific / Noon Eastern. Submit questions in advance, here: Reader Questions.

Comments are disabled on this notice. To join or read the Saturday conversation, go to Today’s Edition, 3/07/26, A brief moment of grace as Trump’s war descends into chaos.


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I will host my regular Saturday livestream on March 7 at 9 am Pacific / Noon Eastern. Submit questions in advance, here: Reader Questions.

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For a brief moment, America was reminded of what it once was—and what it can become again. Three former presidents and a former vice president spoke at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson. Each, in their own way, gave remarks that were dignified, graceful, and a reflection of what is the best in America. Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Harris each delivered appropriate remarks celebrating the life of Rev. Jesse Jackson. To the extent the eulogists spoke about themselves, their purpose was to illuminate Rev. Jackson’s role in their lives as a mentor, friend, and inspiration.

It was a moment of grace and respite as Trump’s illegal war against Iran descended into chaos, as the White House released ghoulish, immature videos that glorify death and destruction. As described by Newsweek,

The clip features several actors in iconic roles from action franchises and television programs. This includes Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Tom Cruise in Top Gun and Tropic Thunder, Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Mel Gibson in Braveheart, Bob Odenkirk in Better Call Saul, Christopher Reeve as Superman, Keanu Reeves in John Wick, Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad, and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. Characters from Transformers, Halo and Yu-Gi-Oh! also feature in the clip, as does Adam Driver as Star Wars villain Kylo Ren. (Note: I have chosen not to link to the videos to avoid driving more traffic to them.)

One of the clips ends with a child’s cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, saying, “Do you want to see me do it again?“ before showing US missiles killing more people.

Killing people, even in war, is not a cause for celebration. Americans would rightly recoil in disgust if Iranians celebrated and mocked the deaths of the six American soldiers killed in Trump’s war on Iran. The immature, adolescent-teen vibe to the videos reflects the school-boy bravado that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth displays every day at press conferences. See Peter Wehner in The Atlantic, Pete Hegseth’s Moral Unseriousness.

Wehner writes,

Wednesday’s briefing, for example, featured the usual Hegseth hubris, strutting, and cockiness. “I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury: America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy,” he said. He declared that, four days into the mission, Iran is “toast, and they know it. Or at least soon enough they will know it.” He compared the Persian nation’s predicament to that of a football team: “They don’t know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays.”

There was not even a hint of the challenges that might lie ahead in the conflict with Iran, a nation of 90 million people that borders seven countries—challenges that might include internal fragmentation and chaos, a dangerous insurgency, humanitarian crises, regional destabilization, and global economic disruption.

Compare the callous, childish remarks of Hegseth and Trump to the clarion calls to our better angels by President Obama, President Biden, President Clinton, and Vice President Kamala Harris. Each speech is worth your review, even in part. But President Obama’s closing passages deserve special attention.

The video is here: : We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope . . . .

President Obama posted the transcript of his remarks here: My Remarks at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Celebration of Life | by Barack Obama | Mar, 2026 | Medium.

President Obama said, in his closing remarks,

We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions, another setback to the idea of the rule of law. An offense to common decency.

Every day you wake up to it, to things you just didn’t think were possible. Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other — and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all.

Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength; we see science and expertise denigrated while ignorance and dishonesty, and cruelty and corruption, are reaping untold rewards.

Every single day we see that. And it’s hard to hope in those moments.

So it may be tempting to get discouraged, to give in to cynicism. It may be tempting for some to compromise with power and grab what you can, or even for good people, to maybe just put your head down and wait for the storm to pass.

But this man — Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson — inspires us to take the harder path. His voice calls on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact — whether it’s in our schools, in our workplaces, in our neighborhoods and our cities. Not for fame, not for glory, or because success is guaranteed, but because it gives our life purpose, because it aligns with what our faith tells us God demands, and because if we don’t step up, no one else will.

President Obama frames the challenge that confronts each of us: If we don’t step up, no one else will.

There is a note of ambiguity in Obama’s final words. He is not saying that if we don’t step up, no one will. Instead, he is saying that we must step up to inspire others to do so. We must be the example so that others will step up as well.

Here’s the good news: Americans are stepping up as never before because they know that our generation must redeem democracy just as every generation before us. Yes, it can be hard to hope on some days. But more often than not, I am hopeful because of you—Americans who have chosen to step up during a moment of crisis in our country.

Trump’s war on Iran spins out of control as the economy falters.

Trump’s illegal, ill-conceived war is spinning out of control as Iran seeks to broaden the war to nearly every country in the Middle East. On Friday, we learned;

Trump and Hegseth have requested that US defense suppliers quadruple their output of precision weapons—an alarming fact that suggests that even the military is surprised by the high rate of consumption of expensive precision missiles that are the backbone of an air war against a vast country of 90 million people. See CNBC, Trump says defense CEOs agree to quadruple production of ‘Exquisite Class’ weaponry.

The abrupt cancellation of military exercises for the leadership of an elite paratrooper unit has caused some observers to fear that the US is preparing for a ground assault in Iran. See The New Republic, DOD Cancels Army Training, Sparking Fears of Escalation in Iran.

Per The New Republic,

The U.S. Army spontaneously canceled a training exercise for an elite team this week, raising concerns that the soldiers may soon be expected to deploy to Iran.

The headquarters element of the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, pulled out of a major training exercise earlier this week. The brigade is a rapid-reaction paratrooper division, comprising up to 5,000 soldiers that are capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours.

A disturbing report suggests that Russia is aiding Iran in identifying US military targets in the Middle East. See Institute for the Study of War, Iran Update Evening Special Report, March 6, 2026. Per ISW,

Russia is reportedly sharing intelligence with Iran to support Iranian attacks against US forces in the Middle East, which highlights the deepening cooperation between two major US adversaries. Iran may not have regular access to high-quality satellite imagery, even from commercially available sources, and may be relying on Russia to get such imagery. Russian intelligence sharing, thus, may be supporting Iranian strikes on US military assets. Multiple people familiar with US intelligence stated that China may be preparing to provide Iran with financial assistance and missile components.

Meanwhile, spikes in crude oil prices and spot shortages have the administration lifting sanctions on Russian oil for India. That would be the same Russia that is helping the Iranians target US military bases. If the US lifts sanctions against Russian oil, that will help Russia fund its war against Ukraine—a nation that the US is now looking to for expertise in defending against Iran’s low-cost drones. See CBS News, U.S. turns to Ukraine for drone defense expertise in Iran war, but solutions may take time.

The reality of oil price shocks has finally pierced traders' consciousness, as Wall Street saw a weekly decline that erased all 2026 gains and pushed the major indices into negative territory. See Bloomberg, Wall Street’s Safety Net Falters During Iran War Market Turmoil. (“Throughout the week, stocks and bonds repeatedly fell together as oil surged and the inflationary shock of a supply disruption pushed Treasury yields higher instead of lower . . .The result was the worst combined week for stocks and bonds since the tariff stress last April.”)

The oil shock to the stock markets was exacerbated by a miserable jobs report that surprised economists. See Fortune, The abysmal February jobs report shatters hopes of a labor market recovery for 2026.

As the economy falters, the government is distracted by an illegal war costing $1 billion per day for an air campaign. As noted above, reports are emerging about Trump’s desire to send ground troops into Iran. See NBC News, Trump has privately shown serious interest in U.S. ground troops in Iran. A combined air-ground campaign will be costlier, even if the ground component is limited. The logistical and tactical support for ground troops will be enormous.

The rapidly devolving situation demonstrates why Congress should have been allowed to fulfill its constitutional role as a check on the president’s ability to wage war.

Opportunities for reader engagement

I received the following email from Lawyers Defending American Democracy

Dear Meeting the Moment Volunteers,

We urge you to take immediate action in response to a Proposed Rulemaking from the Department of Justice that would thwart the existing lawyer discipline system for current and former Department of Justice lawyers. This proposal would effectively remove DOJ lawyers from the oversight of bar disciplinary authorities that have long existed in the States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, placing the process under the control of the Attorney General.

Please see our Rapid Action for Justice webpage, which details what the proposal would do, explains what is at stake, and outlines how you can make a difference.

Please act now. No lawyer is above the law and no category of lawyers should be shielded from the system that has long existed in this country to ensure that the Rules of Professional Conduct are equally applied to all members of the bar.

With gratitude,

Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Executive Director, Lawyers Defending American Democracy

Elders for Sound Democracy

Minneapolis: The People Who Have Inspired Us.

Please join Elders for Sound Democracy on Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 10:00 am Pacific / 1:00 pm Eastern for a conversation with a panel including four volunteers and grassroots organizers from Minneapolis. The panel will share their stories, hard-won insights, and practical lessons about community resilience and collective action. Together, we’ll reflect on their experiences and explore resources and strategies we can apply in our own communities as we work to create the world we want.

Elders for Sound Democracy is a project of Elders Action Network -- a non-partisan community of thousands of elders who are taking action to create a better world for our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We are concerned about what we see happening all around us – and, we are doing something about it! Join our Elders for Sound Democracy community of like-minded elders working to: Protect and Strengthen Democracy—Now and for Future Generations!

Register here: Minneapolis: The People Who Inspired Us — Elders Action Network (There is no fee for this event, though we ask for donations after registration.)

Concluding Thoughts

The chaos that reigns in America tonight is an inch deep. The decency, grace, and normalcy on display at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s memorial service show what America can be once again. We are two election cycles away from reestablishing the rule of law and installing leaders who care about the Constitution and the people, rather than their fragile egos and obscene wealth.

For a brief moment, America was reminded of what it once was—and what it can become again, with your help.

Stay strong! I will talk to you on Saturday!

Pro-democracy protest photos.

[Send photos to rbhubbell@gmail.com. Include city and state in the body of the email. No photos of minors, please.]

Silverlake (LA), CA, 101 Fwy.

Princeton, NJ’s second monthly honk-and-wave rally was organized by Indivisible on a cold, gray Friday. Lots of honking and waving from about 80% of passing vehicles, and some had their own anti-Trump signs.

Lawrence Township, NJ, with Lawrence Citizen Activists, an Indivisible Group

Another Friday, with 60 of us at the Gorman Road Overpass in Howard County, Maryland, over busy I-95.

Georgia Ave and Forest Glen, Silver Spring, MD meeting since April 2025 Friday

I was pleasantly surprised that our local Chatham, MA, Cape Cod Chronicle newspaper used some of my Orleans protest photos in this week’s printed edition. This was an ‘emergency’ protest a day after the Iran bombing. I think local coverage is an important publicity strategy and needs to be encouraged. Seeing is believing.

Protest Photos From Dedham, MA, March 5.

Today marks the 255th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, when patriots in Boston stood up to King George III.

Tonight, community members will gather for a candlelight vigil to speak out against actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in our neighborhoods. The names of individuals who lost their lives in connection with these agencies will be read aloud, and bells will ring from the First Church in Dedham in their memory.


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A very subdued, synth-heavy funeral doom album that also has elements of black/doom and dungeon synth. It's mournful and peaceful, and every now and again the instrumental orchestral parts break sound like they could be the soundtrack to a forgotten fantasy film.

This one-man band only ever released this album, but it's a pretty decent example of the more melodic side of the genre.

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Leafs general manager Brad Treliving met with the media Friday for what was maybe his most sombre availability since coming to Toronto.

The Maple Leafs’ first trade deadline as sellers in a decade is over.

After trading Nicolas Roy, Bobby McMann and Scott Laughton for a collection of draft picks, Leafs general manager Brad Treliving met with the media for what was maybe his most sombre availability since coming to Toronto in 2023.

Let’s unpack the most notable things the Leafs GM said on Friday.

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How's everyone progressing towards their lifting goals? What program are you following, and how has that been working for you?

Any successes or setbacks?

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Jennifer Lee, a 24-year-old pastry chef from Connecticut, has read hundreds of books. She’s partial to romance novels with burning enemies-to-lovers arcs, especially those that lean on fantasy tropes: magical colleges, regal dragons, and slender, shirtless half-elves coiled in knotty muscle. She isn’t above the occasional steamy sex scene. She enjoys the work of Sarah J. Maas and her vast bibliography of kink-friendly fairies, just as she likes the Hunger Games–tinged entanglements of Lauren Roberts’ Powerless trilogy. But one thing Lee emphatically does not like is any book written from the perspective of a third-person narrator. I know this because on her TikTok page, where Lee posts about her literary proclivities to 15,000 followers, she has uploaded a video in which she scrunches up her face in disgust at the prospect of venturing away from her preferred syntactical architecture—the safe, ensconcing I’s and me’s of the first-person perspective. A single sentence is emblazoned across the bottom of the frame. It reads, plain and simple, “I HATE third person POV books.”

“It’s just off-putting to me. I feel like books are easier to understand when they’re written in first person,” said Lee, when I reached out to her for an interview. “Sometimes when I’m seeking out a new book, I want it to be as dumbed down as possible. These fantasy books often have all of this world-building. Sometimes I’m not in the mood to think. I just want to get lost in a story.”

To Lee, first-person point of view facilitates her needs, and she is far from the only person to feel this way. Studded across what is known as “BookTok”—the informal TikTok-based digital hub for the greater romance community—are innumerable riffs on the same conclusion. Dozens of book-focused content creators have posted videos of the smile dropping from their faces upon discovering that the novel they have just cracked open is written in the third person. The emotions expressed often amount to a feeling of betrayal, as if an author is snidely trolling them by purging their prose of copious first-person pronouns. (Some of the more dramatic TikToks with this complaint end with the offending fiction getting chucked into the garbage.) Elsewhere on BookTok, readers mourn their own self-diagnosed ineptitude; they’d like to savor the richness of third person, they say, but, for whatever reason, are unable to wrap their minds around the vantage point. “I feel like I don’t know how to read!” said one exasperated TikTokker, bemoaning the all-seeing narrator pervading two books she couldn’t quite grok. “I can’t do it. I tried. It does not work for me.”

Readers’ increasingly vocal partiality for first-person perspective over third person amounts to a profound shift in taste. Even while publishing is in dire straits elsewhere, the romance genre is in the midst of an unprecedented boom period. Sales in the genre have doubled since 2020, almost single-handedly rehabilitating an industry that had been ailing for decades. (Of America’s 10 best-selling books in 2024, six of them were romance.) But the readers buying those titles often demand that authors render them to their precise specifications: first person, with a fixed perspective, no omniscient lapses allowed. It’s a minor aesthetic preference, but it also might be transforming literary culture as a whole.

“I have had readers come up to me at book signings and say, to my face, ‘I won’t read this book of yours because it’s in third person,’ ” said K. Iwancio, a romance author who specializes in hunky baseball players. (Her best-performing book bears the joyfully gratuitous title Nailed at Home Plate.) Iwancio has written through the lens of a third-person narrator in the past, but after internalizing the realities of the market, she has rendered the most recent entries in her oeuvre in first person.

“I was like, Oh, I got to get with the times,” she said, laughing.

For decades, the quintessential romance novel was a gooey parlor drama with bursting corsets and lacy gowns written entirely in third-person omniscient. Within that framework, an author was liberated to accentuate the rippling deltoids of the novel’s rakish libertine, or to mire in the melodrama of a forbidden tryst, absent the limitations of personal subjectivity. Great sex requires a secret language shared by two or more souls; therefore, in fiction, the conventional thinking went, it’s most easily expressed by an all-knowing narrator.

It is hard to say when or why those norms changed, other than the fact that they most certainly have. Taylor Capizola, manager of the Los Angeles romance-centric bookstore The Ripped Bodice, told me that the ratio of first-person novels she stocks has “expanded greatly” in the four years she’s worked as a bookseller, to the point that they now dominate her shelves.

“It’s become the predominant perspective in the genre,” said Capizola. “We have readers come in and ask if we have entire sections dedicated to first person.” If fan fiction asserts the primacy of personal wish fulfillment, then you could argue that this new wave of romance novels serves—and reflects—the same purpose.

Capizola has her theories about why this is the case. Romance, as a category, is home to an infinite number of tropes, themes, and compulsions; it’s what these works are built on. There are novels featuring suave F1 drivers, forbidden private-school paramours, or swole, gentle minotaurs, and during this current renaissance—when more books of the genre are getting published than ever before—that has made the fantasies on display meticulously customizable. The guesswork of fiction has been removed from the process entirely. If a reader has determined that a story centering the illicit affair between a matriarchal baseball owner and her rugged bench coach will inflame their nervous system more than all other permutations, you best believe that there is at least one novel that fits the bill, and it’s easier than ever to find it thanks to unsubtle marketing, intracommunity recommendations, and search results that highlight those desired keywords.

“You have a breadth of all these characters, and you can kind of take your pick and go live in their world,” said Capizola. Romance consumers, she continued, “know exactly what they want to read, and they’ll stop at nothing to find the perfect book.”

Of course, that doesn’t fully explain why many romance readers prefer to experience those sagas exclusively in first person, from the gray matter of a seduced protagonist. But Capizola is quick to mention that a number of the most successful authors in romance got their start in fan fiction—as in the vast morass of derivative work spun off from established franchises and self-published and disseminated across the internet via platforms like Archive of Our Own, the promised land of fan fic. (Case in point: Before Ali Hazelwood sold 750,000 copies of her 2021 STEM-themed megahit rom-com The Love Hypothesis, she dreamed up steamy liaisons between Kylo Ren and Rey Skywalker on AO3, as Archive of Our Own is called in shorthand.)

Fan fiction has always been underpinned by the fantasia of exploring a beloved fictional universe on one’s own terms, and unsurprisingly, a good amount of the work is written in first person, particularly within the subgenre known as self-insert, in which authors imagine themselves—or a thinly veiled surrogate—into the source material so they too may join the House of Gryffindor or glitter in the sunlight with Edward Cullen. These days in particular, a lot of DNA is shared between these two modes of publishing—traditional and fan-made—with the barriers that once divided them blurring to the point of becoming effectively indistinguishable, as publishing houses scoop up beloved fics, slap a new coat of “We changed all the copyrightable identifiers; you can’t sue us” paint on them, and sell the remixed results for $20.99 apiece. If fan fiction asserts the primacy of personal wish fulfillment, then you could argue that this new wave of romance novels serves—and reflects—the same purpose.

“Fan fiction was a catalyst for what’s happening in the literary industry,” said Iwancio. “Authors used what they learned in fan fiction in their romance novels. People who may have never read a fan fic before might still be like, Oh, gosh, I really love this.”

Lee, the TikTokker, put it this way: “When I read first person, I’m almost like, That’s me. That’s me in the book.”

Here is where I must admit that throughout my years as a reader, I have never given much thought to authorial perspective. I have read first person, I have read third person, and the differences between the two vantage points are basically immaterial to me. I’ve never walked into a bookstore in search of a novel that fits a checklist of defined attributes or aesthetic flourishes. Those are creative decisions I prefer to let the author make, which may set me apart from the typical romance enthusiast. That’s basically fine with me. I think people should be allowed to read what they want to read, and they retain the right to besmirch what they don’t on TikTok or elsewhere. But there are at least some voices in the romance community who believe that this growing compulsion—to dictate the punctilious traits a novel must possess, down to the basic language schematics—is eroding what makes the genre special.

Jennifer Prokop, co-host of the scholarly romance-centric podcast Fated Mates, told me a story to make this point. The most popular romance novel on the market right now is Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry, which was recently adapted into a series that went gangbusters after HBO Max acquired streaming rights. Heated Rivalry follows two professional hockey players navigating their smoldering queer love affair, as well as the macho norms in the realm of professional sports. Heated Rivalry is also the rare romance novel to be written in third person, and Prokop believes that the presence of a narrator enriches the text. “It allows us to get a distance from the characters, and that builds empathy,” she said. “I’m a married white woman. Watching someone deal with homophobia, seeing the effect that it has, helps me understand the impact it has on him.” What do romance novels ultimately want—and aspire—to be?

Prokop maintains that while those complex themes can be explored in first person, off-loading narrative tension into an internal monologue has a way of flattening a romance narrative, hemming in the scope. “It limits the kind of stories you can tell,” she continued. “It’s a lot harder to keep a secret from a reader.” Prokop is especially weary of the clear-eyed mindfulness possessed by the wayward lovers that tends to populate first-person novels—how their acuities remain crystalline and sharp, as if touched by the divine, across the pages, in a way that requires almost too much suspension of disbelief, even for a genre that traffics in that suspension.

“All of the characters are nice. There’s a trope called the ‘Cinnamon Roll hero,’ and he’s just a good guy who wants the protagonist,” said Prokop. “The best first person has a strong narrative voice. The character is super distinctive. But if the books all sound the same—which a lot of them do—then that’s not great for the genre.”

Ultimately, this circles back to the question at the heart of the first-person debate: What do romance novels ultimately want—and aspire—to be? Toward the end of our conversation, Lee told me that she read an eyepopping 50 books in 2024. That averages out to about a book a week, and it completely lapped what I had accomplished in the same time frame. I think that’s because we approach reading for different reasons. My friends and I are what is known as a “Difficult Book Club.” We conquered The Brothers Karamazov last summer, and I’m currently adrift in The Recognitions, a 1,000-page tome by postmodern legend William Gaddis that requires a Ph.D.-level appreciation of Flemish painting to fully unlock its nuances. When I sit down with such books, the experience is usually mustardy, adversarial, and homework-like, driven by some deep, subliminal conviction that enlightenment is the prime directive of fiction.

Lee, naturally, has the complete opposite approach. “I’m not reading difficult literature. It’s just not my relationship to reading,” she said. “Would I love to be an intellectual? Sure. But do I feel enticed to take on books like that? No, not really. I read to escape, not to learn.”

I found Lee’s candor to be strangely noble. I thought about the decades of withering angst about declining literacy rates—the ominous reports that college students can’t make it through a pamphlet, much less a paperback, due to the mind-boiling assault of the algorithms ruling social media. How, then, are we supposed to wring our hands over the fact that in 2026 some people are reading more than they had in the past—even if what they’re reading tends to conform to their preferred constellation of tropes, contrivances, and, yes, perspectives? After all, consuming these books changed Lee’s life. She never read much in school. She assumed that books were for brainier people, beholden to an academic milieu that had permanently sidelined her. Well, now she loves to read. Who am I to tell her that she uncovered that love improperly?

And for what it’s worth, Lee actually has started to dabble in third-person books. She was convinced by Sarah J. Maas and her high-fantasy series Throne of Glass, which—unlike her more popular romances, such as A Court of Thorns and Roses—is written in third person. Lee purchased the first Throne of Glass book without knowing about this different perspective and, upon making the horrible discovery, condemned it to her shelf for months. Eventually, though, she decided to give it a shot. She worked her way through the prose in fits and starts, grappling with the unfamiliar narrative omniscience until, finally, something clicked. “I got over it,” said Lee. “There was an initial shock that it wasn’t in first person, but eventually your brain adjusts.”

At long last, thanks to the gateway books that paved the way, the full vibrancy of literature has cracked open for her. She can read anything now. Ulysses, Middlemarch, The Power Broker—it’s all on the table. Or, as is her prerogative, Lee may very well stick to what she knows best: cute boys and cute girls falling in love over and over again, through God’s eyes or her own.

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Real Bedford's indifferent form of late continued in Loughborough, as Sam Warburton's only goal gave Quorn FC a 1-0 win against Rob Sinclair's side towards the top of Southern League...

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