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Scenes from our latest Pynchon episode!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4oXT0Gf63mnLWrghvDDUu4?si=wOg9QQCuSjOXULTOtzgb4...

Not the easiest book to read, but it was worth the effort. A postmodernist version of the lives of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, it is at times funny, at times moving, and frequently surreal. As I live in Gloucestershire, I particularly enjoyed the references to Mason‘s past, with its references to the Cheese Rolling and Shin-Kicking - yes, they‘re real and still take place!

Another finish for #Rushathon

@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

That moment when an author mentions something completely bizarre, but then you Google it and find out that Jacques de Vaucanson‘s Digesting Duck was a real thing…..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck

This book is hilarious

Got to visit my first bookstore in over a year and man it was Magical.

#3Books #IDNFed

I intend to try again with both the Pynchon and the Murakami.

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

My only #DNF ever; a very strange book that one day I would like to try again.

#30JuneBooks @howjessreads

1. Gemini
2. Not giving up - I‘m signed up to do the London Marathon, after a recent long training run I felt so bad I thought about giving up, but I‘m still varying on!
3. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. Tried to read it a few years ago but it is tough going - written in medieval style and very, very weird. I do want to give it another go, though.
4. Marathon training
5. Love to all my fellow #Littens!

#FriyayIntro

Not going to lie, it took me two false starts before I really got into (and finished) this book but it was totally worth it. Give it the time it needs and you'll fall in love with it! #finallyfinished

Having a blast with this book. 🧀🧀

Oh me oh my how I love this book!! And there it goes, back into the TBR pile for a revisit of one of the (many) most pleasurable reading experiences of my life :) #reallifereading #booktober #text-onlycovers

My favourite book, bar none. By turns funny, sad, touching, filthy, crazy and brilliant. Not for the faint of heart, but so worth it if you can put the effort in. I've read all the Pynchon, and this is his crowning achievement. The tattoo is my ampersand, a symbol obliquely central to the book.