bailedI usually don't bail on books. But I had a really hard time getting into this one. Just not for me. Onto the next.
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories | 
bailedI usually don't bail on books. But I had a really hard time getting into this one. Just not for me. Onto the next.
Late post, but I joined in the #SuperSeptember Readathon with this excellent book of short stories.
Goals:
📙 finish this book (221 pages to go after today)
📚 start Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie for book club
💛 Thank you for subbing @EadieB !
panThis book was just not for me. A few of the stories were okay, but overall, not my taste. Honestly, I should have bailed early on, but sometimes I can be stubborn about a book I really want to like!
On the plus side, it helped me knock out a prompt (#MustacheonCover) for #Booked2021! 😄
@Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft
pickI loved this collection of short stories all based around a fictional town and intersecting each other in different places. The writing was tremendous and darkly hysterical and uncomfortable - but all in an excellent way to point out absurdities in our own world. Very well done, looking forward to reading more of his work
📚 I had some good book mail this week! I used some gift cards, got my next book club book, and got the most perfect chihuahua reading stamp from a friend!
✊🏽 In light of the disgusting terrorist attack on our Capitol this week, I am reminded by BIPOC Instagram friends that “the books are not enough.” I promise I know this and I am continuing my work on being anti racist.
#amplifyblackvoices #readblackauthors
#bookmailisthebestmail #bookmail
so-soStories set in a fictional City. Many of them were loosely connected.
pickA strange and complex and surreal collection of shorts (thought the last short is more of a novella). A worthwhile read, if you're in the mood for some weird.
I needed a light read and this exceeded my expectations. I am not sure what I am reading, but it is good - very good. So far the stories are hilarious, clever and insightful. The part in the first story about Jesus getting a message from himself was brilliantly funny.
"David didn't mind sin, but he knew he had to pretend to hate sin if he ever wanted to engage in some."
-"David Sherman, The Last Son of God"
pickSurreal and tightly wound, this collection of loosely-connected stories is one of the stranger I‘ve read in recent years. A sentient robot, a cult, a conniving professor, all set in his vision of Cross River, MD.
My #weeklyreport is focused on three books I‘d like to finish! Just started the tagged book tonight. It is a #2020resolution to read more short story collections.
#weeklyforecast
Here‘s my #weeklyforecast!
📕finish SIGNS
🔈finish SECRET HISTORY
📖start REAL LIFE
📖start the tagged book
Not sure what I‘ll start on audio after I finish my relisten of Secret History. None of my audioholds are due from Libby so I might have to spend a credit.
What‘s the best audiobook you‘ve listened to lately?
A bit late but here's my weekly forecast.
- finish Virginia Woolf's The Waves 🌊🌊 (💙💙)
- listen to Nell Zink's Doxology (enjoying the 90s nostalgia so far) 🎶🎧
- read Act II of King Lear 👑 👴🇬🇧 for #shakespearereadalong.
And then...perhaps something from the library stack...either essays or short stories.
I like this new tag @cinfhen 😘
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Rion Amilcar Scott has some great work. The World Doesn‘t Require You is a worthwhile read. Also, check out his short story “Shape-Ups at Delilah‘s” in the Oct 7th edition of The New Yorker, also another awesome read.
Here are 17 genre-spanning works—memoir to short story to poetry, and more—that consider power and memory in relation to contemporary and historical spaces: https://www.strandbooks.com/strand-blog#/entry/entry238-memor...
🎉IT‘S NEW BOOK DAY!🎉 Here are some of today‘s new books! There are several more out today that I am excited about, including Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, The Warlow Experiment, Meet Me in the Future: Stories, Color Me In, Girls and Their Cats, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays, and The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories. What are you excited to read?📚❤️📚
pickWhat a brilliant book. Complex and layered, funny yet so sad. Many of the stories dealt with the idea of freedom or lack thereof. I highly recommend it. Out in August.
