Repost for @TheBookHippie
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL 📔
Everyone welcome!
Repost for @TheBookHippie
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL 📔
Everyone welcome!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL 📔
Everyone welcome!
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD APRIL 🌼
April 7 OFF (catch up last month)
April 14 I & II
April 21 III & IV
April 28 V to the end
Short Story for us for April 🌼
Everyone Welcome 🌼
#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD
Our APRIL book is reasonably priced currently if you‘re looking to buy a copy
Kindle is 7.31 😵💫🤷🏻♀️
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I very much enjoyed this. A lovely, quiet, somewhat melancholy book that burrows into your soul 💚 An entire life told in such a short book, and yet I didn‘t feel like it needed to be any longer. Thanks, @vivastory - I read this after seeing your posts about it 😊
I have been in Italy for the past couple of weeks so it has been hard to find time to read. I did finish this quiet novella today. Not much happens but the writing is gorgeous and Zorrie feels as real as any flesh and blood person I know. I wish I had read it when I was better able to focus but it will be well worth revisiting.
Have you ever started a book 📖 thinking 🤔 Il just do a few pages and an hour later your still there ?😂 #bookspinbingo #20 #marchbingo. This great little book was recommended to be by the wonderful people at Mr B‘s book emporium in bath , my friend and I had the book doctor meeting which is dangerous ! You could end up buying the shop 😆
Book: Zorrie (One of the greatest novellas I've read the past couple of years)
Author: Zadie Smith*Zola*Alejandro Zambra*
Movie: Zed & Two Noughts*Zero For Conduct*Zero Dark Thirty*Zero Kelvin*Zero Theorem*Zodiac
Singer/Band: ZZ Ward*
Song: Zak & Sara (Ben Folds)* Zombies (Cranberries)* Ziggy Stardust (Bowie)* Zebulon (Rufus Wainwright)
Thanks for bringing back #manicmonday @cbee It's been a blast!
A quiet story of a woman‘s life in rural Indiana & the radium factory girls. Spare prose, not overwritten. Warm & compassionate without being sentimental: you feel the ripple effects of the radium poisoning by what is not said & the emotional impact comes from Zorrie‘s stoicism & resilience. Subtle but beautiful.
I would have to agree with this blurb about Zorrie. It‘s beautifully written and, as a Midwesterner, I felt at home in these pages. I appreciated the contemplative, lazy-river ride through Zorrie‘s life. (If you need a lot of action and climactic events, this one isn‘t for you.) Lovely read that will stay in my mind for a long time. My #BookSpin for August ☺️
#AlphabetGame
Title that begins with the letter Z
One of my favorite books of the year is a Z title. Laird Hunt's unassuming, yet captivating, novella about a woman who makes a home for herself in the countryside of Indiana after working as a Radium Girl. I was reminded of Stoner while reading this & after having another wonderful experience with his novella In the House in the Dark of the Woods, Hunt has become a new favorite.
This was on the Booker rumours list, hence why I borrowed it from the library just in case….
This short book tells of Zorrie‘s life in rural Indiana, from childhood to old age. The blurb offers comparisons with Willa Cather, Elizabeth Strout and Marilynne Robinson. I‘d also add Kent Haruf to that but, while it was a good read for me, it‘s not as good as anything by those authors.
This is the second Laird Hunt book that I've read this year. In the House in the Dark of the Woods, also a novella, was a fascinating blend of Schweblin's Fever Dream & Eggers' The VVitch. Zorrie is one of those quiet stories where there's not much of a plot, but Life itself is the story. Think Stoner. Think Olive Kitteridge. With these two equally memorable, yet different, works I will definitely be reading whatever Hunt publishes in the future.
My copy of Straub's This Time Tomorrow is supposed to arrive tomorrow, in the meantime I am in between books. I think I will start the tagged book. At around 150 pages, it's a slim volume, but if it's anything like his novella In the House in the Dark etc it will be memorable.
A lovely gentle book, following one woman's life from the Depression to old age.
I loved this short book that examined a woman‘s long, quiet life. It was reminiscent of Willa Cather‘s novels that demonstrate the depth of ordinary lives. Zorrie comes of age in the Great Depression, and lives through WWII and the subsequent turbulent years in America. She spends most of her life on a farm, but her life is not sheltered. The characters are well-rounded, and Hunt‘s language is descriptive without being overwrought. Lovely.
Every life lived is a story. This one is a quiet reflection of an American midwestern woman‘s life with the attending joys, sorrows, and transitions we all experience.
I can appreciate the comparison to “Stoner”, but it didn‘t resonate as deeply for me. Some of the passages seemed a bit contrived or incongruent.
If you have read any of Ted Kooser‘s poetry 💜 it is reminiscent in that what is ordinary or plain can also be beautiful.
Next up! I heard Russell Gray compare this to Williams‘ “Stoner”, so I have to check it out. I hope I‘m not disappointed. 🤞🏾
Nope. Another historical fiction book I read from a list — this time the National Book Award; Zorrie is a finalist. It reminded me a bit of Olive Kitteridge with less charm. I felt removed from the action and I hate that feeling when reading. The novel is short, though it spans Zorrie‘s lifetime from her tragic childhood, coming of age, marriage, and later life. Takes place in the early 20th century in the Midwest.
For such a short book I found that this novel dragged and was repetitive at times. I am suprised it is on the National Book Award short list. The writing was solid and I loved getting the scope of this woman's life, but I wonder if I will remember this in the long run. 2.5 🌟
Zorrie chronicles the life of a woman in rural Indiana, starting in 1930. It‘s a perfectly fine read, but pretty forgettable, so I have no idea why it‘s on the NBA shortlist. I wonder if my response to it would be different if I were a city-dweller. Then maybe the rural life described might seem remarkable to me when instead it just seems normal.
Two take my fancy - the tagged book and George Perec‘s Ellis island.
Anything here catch your eye?
https://lithub.com/15-new-books-to-get-from-your-local-indie-this-week/