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[GA Russell]

Cannot recommend.  These are the daily strips from the 2020-2021 Covid lockdown, and most of them aren't funny.

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[Referentzhunter]

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I just finished this.  I found the first third or so, which covered her life up until she left the Clouds of Joy, pretty interesting.  As it continued the writing deteriorated and took on a repetitive quality.  It went on and on about Mary's efforts to get the Catholic church to let her stage religious works in church.  I don't find her religious works as interesting as her jazz work so I ended up rapidly skimming a lot of that. This is an interesting subject but the book is not terribly well written.  I have another bio of Williams, Morning Glory, on order.

https://archive.org/details/soulonsoullifemu0000kern/mode/2up