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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5.0

Ah bliss. For years and years I've said GWTW is one of my all time favorite books, yet it has been...maybe 25 years since I last read it!! The page length kept scaring me away (this edition is 1,400 pages, ahem). Time to pick it up again. So glad I did. There are so many extra nuances I forgot about remembering only the movie. Additional characters (the children!!), what really happened in the south during Reconstruction (boy did they really think nothing of freed slaves, the Klan!), deeper relationships (Rhett and Belle). Scarlett, one of my fave characters ever, is even more clueless and heartless than I recalled. Mitchell was a genius.