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Fun, kinda dark romp.. I enjoyed 4321 by the same author.. he seems obsessed with refractions/reverberations across (shared) lives/timelines? I'll pick up any other Austers I stumble across..

For my rdg grp on wed we're doing a Auster/Hustvedt combo.With art heavy 'what I loved' + now with this deep description of silent films I can vividly imagine their very intellectual chats over their cornflakes. Here David zimmer has lost his wife + 2 sons in a plane crash, in his grief he writes a work abt a silent film star who disappeared at the height of his fame. When a later purports be from his wife arrives he is drawn into a mystery.

I do prefer Austers older works over his new books. This one was great for looking for hidden traces and connections. And there are a lot of those! I also enjoyed reading about Victors movies. Those parts were stories inside the story.

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Dear #LitsyLove friends, thank you all so much for your birthday wishes and Christmas cards ♥️ I've recived so much love and kindess ❤️

I will answer all your cards and letters, but sadly the winter months are those in which I need to work the most and hardly have any spare time.

So please be patient with me 🙇‍♀️

What if it‘s all for nothing?

Our narrator pursues obscure silent film star Hector Mann, and Auster makes full use of his name and his later life in New Mexico. This is terrific storytelling, a continual pouring out of captivating story facts. The end seems to be the point and can leave readers who effortlessly hummed through suddenly uncomfortable. Left me that way. Wondering.

(Also this is the time I‘ve read Paul Auster.)

It‘s time to try Paul Auster out, finally. My next book.

I decided to read this book for a TIOLI challenge on #LibraryThing to read a book with a four word title. I read the first few pages which make the story seem intriguing so I‘m going to go with it!

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I think this one is self-explanatory 👁️
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A very intriguing novel and a real Auster. Many stories in one book, as is often the case with Auster. I have enjoyed all storylines and think he is a great writer. He even makes me a fan of Hector Mann, the silent film maker this book is about. I would have loved to see his movies, but unfortunately they were made up by Auster!
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When all morning all you wanted was to go to lunch so that you could read your book. THOSE are the days you can't take lunch until after 2:00. 😤

Rough day today so I decided bubble bath and book would help. These were my choices and I ended up going with The Book of Illusions, which I am LOVING so far. I got really pruney because I couldn't put it down long enough to towel off! 👍

This book was weird but in that good-weird kind of way. Guy suffers tragedy, guy gets obsessed with mysteriously-vanished silent film star, and it just spirals from there! I found it delightful! 😊 86/1,001 #1001Books

Someone here just posted about Auster being a nice guy and I remembered this picture I took when he was here for a lit series I organize. Not a great photo but what's funny about it is that he is standing in the SC State House, listening to the governor who happened to give an impromptu press conference while we were walking around. A long way from Brooklyn!

A movie adaptation of a book about a silent-film star? Yes!!! #thisshouldbeamovie - why isn't it yet??? I'm starting to feel like I should be green lighting projects in Hollywood 😏. What are those people doing all day???
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#Recommendsday Gorgeous novel about lost love and silent film.

Put off finishing this for a few days because I didn't want it to end...

Would it still be true to say that there was no moon in the sky that night? If I didn't take the trouble to turn around and look behind me, then yes, it would still be true. If I never saw the moon, then the moon was never there.

Once upon a time in a far away land there was a treasure hidden in a magical place...
(Weekend trip to Seattle, found this little gem inside an amazing bookstore I didn't even know existed by Auster about a letter from a silent film star who disappeared 60 years ago.) So many of my favorite things!
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Canadians...I'm super grateful 😊

It's #Recommendsday! Here's the first book I read by Paul Auster. I picked it up on a whim in the Denver airport.
How do you write about silent film? What are the words for it? It's hard enough to write about another art form - the point is to experience the art in the chosen medium. But Auster not only pulls it off - he does so exquisitely. This is a BEAUTIFUL book. Read it when you can.

Used bookstore pick #1, this nearly brand-new hardcover for about a buck, in Japanese yen. I've never read Auster, and it's high time I rectify that.

My first Paul Auster. I picked it up in the airport at Denver - lucky find ❤️