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True Grit by Charles Portis
4.0

I wish I’d read this before seeing the movie (the remake that is so true to the text). The funny bits still made me laugh out loud even though the plot held no surprises. The afterword by Donna Tartt mentions Mattie as more like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz than others she is compared to. What a character. What a trick to make someone who is so humorless be so funny with no loss of dignity.