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MIButterfly

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16. "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler

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Sun Feb 1, 2026, 09:11 PM

Sunday

One of the squares on my Bingo card from the library is to read a book from the year I was born, so I picked this one from 1953. I just started it. Apparently there was a movie adapted from this novel made in 1973 directed by Robert Altman and starring Elliot Gould as Philip Marlowe but I never saw it.

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