Book mail! 👏🏾 I‘m really looking forward to both. No idea when I‘m going to get to all the treasures. 😅
Book mail! 👏🏾 I‘m really looking forward to both. No idea when I‘m going to get to all the treasures. 😅
I really enjoyed “Dr. No”. The characters are fun and the way that Everett plays with language just adds another level. Honestly, he seems to be a bit of a polymath.
Last minute #wintergames!
1. Tagged was my fav for December. Not the year, but I feel like I‘ve talked about that book elsewhere!
2. A Discovery of Witches
3. Haha, not this year. Covering my dogs ears when the fireworks go off?
4. Nah
5. There was snow! But only barely enough for my pup. He is a winter doggo, as you can see.
🍌👖! This was very weird and won't be my last Everett!
#booked2023 #bookwasweirderthanexpected @Cinfhen @alisiakae @BarbaraTheBibliophage
#bookreport @Cinfhen
Finished A Passage to India
Hibernated Golden Hill
Started Dr No
Why is it that it takes an injury or illness to finish a title sometimes. I tripped entering a conference Saturday morning. Had to bail due to pain before lunch. But I finished both my audio book (Babel) and this digital while elevating and icing my leg. I really liked Trees so I was disappointed with this newer title from Everett. Same pacing and absurdity; word and concept play was less interesting and I cared about the characters less.
Everett stirfry, familiar ingredients: wordplay, puns, naming, pop culture, race, philosophy, games, academia, solitary protagonist. Following up on little Ralph Townsend from “Glyph,” now a math prof at Brown studying nothing. Supervillain revenge caper, playing w/ genre. P. 6 “I have spent my career in my little office […] contemplating and searching for nothing. […] I work very hard and I wish I could say I have nothing to show for it.” 2022
I absolutely loved this book, snort-laughing my way through it. It features a mathematician who finds himself embroiled in something nefarious, but he never quite seems to know what‘s going on. It‘s clever and bananas and a completely worthy follow up to the stupendous The Trees. I‘m so glad I‘ve discovered Everett and that his profile has risen. He‘s the real deal.
PEN Award winners and a link to view!
https://pen.org/literary-awards/2023-literary-awards-winners/
Announcing the PEN Awards nominees! https://pen.org/literary-awards/announcing-the-2023-pen-america-literary-awards-...
After loving Telephone and The Trees, I went in with high expectations to Everett‘s new release. It‘s clever, but it didn‘t wow me. Still going to work on his backlist though.
Wala Kitu is an eccentric math professor that studies nothing, not the absence of something but the presence of nothing. A wealthy man who wants to be a Bond-like supervillain hires Wala to help him unleash nothing on the country.
Should be Dr. Snow in Kentucky right now!
I wanted the Center for Fiction key ring, so I ordered the tagged book as well. Really looking forward to reading it.
Now that I‘ve finished it I appreciate the book more than while reading it. It‘s such a clever plot about a professor who‘s an expert in “nothing” and a villain who wants the professor the help him to make sure that “nothing” happens to the world.
It‘s an adventurous novel (not really my style) filled with the most colorful characters. It‘s hard to follow at times but as I said super clever. Everett keeps surprising me with each book.
I am finally feeling human again! I was really afraid I‘d have to go back to the hospital last night, but today has been a good, almost normal day. 🎉
I treated myself to these two books to celebrate feeling better. (I ordered them as soon as they took my iv out…priorities. 😉🤣)
Just a few more leaves because we‘ve had a huge cold snap here and had our first snow over the weekend. Unusual for Kentucky! 🥶
Look what I couldn‘t resist today 😍😍😍
I wasn‘t even aware Everett wrote a new book but I was so happy to find out!