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📖 6-21-22 || I love the cover on this (!) and how well-written it is. However, I‘m sure it must be me, but I find the style of switching back-and-forth in the interconnected short stories a bit difficult to follow.

Its on its way!! #LLSS #LitsyLoveSummerSwap

@rsteve388 @Kdgordon88

Wow. This follow up to The Idiot is similarly funny in Batuman‘s trademark dry, deadpan style, but at about the 2/3 mark it got dark and sad for me. The protagonist, Selin lives her life as if she were a heroine in a 19th century novel and my heart ached for every stupid decision she made. Batuman is such a smart writer. I think she is doing something big and Proustian with these books.

1st book finished for #JoyousJune & also read for #CampLitsy

Once there was a man who followed a friend to a dinner party. While there, the man decides to lock himself in the spare room and refuse to come out. Fact, we follow some people close to him and the house over the following days and months and see how his decision influence many.

This is a typical Smith novel, playing with language and words. Looking at art. Looking at people connecting to each other.

4th book read for #JoysOfJune
@Andrew65

The fact is, imagine a man sitting on an exercise bike in a spare room.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

#Two4Tuesday
✍️ I don‘t think an author will be upset if he/she/they is called a writer. But usually author is for a person who has published his/her/their work.
✍️I wish I could but I don‘t have that skill, talent. I think is wonderful, amazing how every artist can transform an idea, something observed or felt in a piece of art, music, book. It is like an explosion of feelings. Intrigued how that thought process is absorbed by meaningful words

Pride Month: Day Fifteen! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Just finished this book today...and wow. What a heartbreaking story. If you thought Shuggie Bain was sad, this is a million times worse. Lots of poverty, parental neglect, violence, and sexual assault. But...the story still retains a hopeful ending, and Mungo has a future worth fighting for. Just an overall terribly sad story, told in an exquisitely beautiful way. 💕

#pridemonth #queerbooks #lgbtq

Oh Alanis! There's a gem like this on every page. 😂
(I think part of my love for this book & the Idiot is because I was also a college student in the 90s.)

Taking my sweet time with this book. I was lucky enough to have finished The Idiot right after Either/Or came out, and I don‘t want to let go of Selin anytime soon.

There are so many amazing artistic, literary, and academic references in this series, but the one that had me jumping up and down was the Fiona Apple discourse. Apple is my greatest creative inspiration, and the fact that Selin connected with her as well… Gives me goosebumps ♥️