My Heart Hemmed in | 
"In just the few minutes since the boat docked, the intense paleness of the sky has succumbed to the invasion of an azure so elemental that the paving stones on the dock and yellow-and-white façades beyond the port seem tinted blue by it, as if no surface could resist absorbing such vigor."
"I‘d rather die than see those faces again—faces mine must look a little like now that I‘ve aged some—I‘d rather die than feel the pity the sight of abandoned, rejected old people always inspires, a pity mixed with remorse and nostalgia, because don‘t all old people, quiet and unassuming all their lives, have a bereft or pleading look that can make your heart ache even when they‘ve never done one thing to deserve your indulgence?”
"Vast pools of shadow submerge the corners of the [train station lobby] in a vagueness that seems aswarm with activity, though I can‘t see a soul, and I tell myself that this darkness must hold the ghostly, agitated, unhappy trace of everyone who‘s passed through here all day, and then I wonder if they might still be there and I simply don‘t see them"
panI‘ve never had a book grab me so quickly to let me down so wholly. What a bizarre, bizarre story. Beautifully written, but really not for me.
pickWell this book was a trip! It's weird and a bit uncomfortable, but also riveting. At first, I was like, "what the hell is going on?" But that's what the narrator is feeling too. Because suddenly her respectable life is crumbling and she doesn't know why, or doesn't want to know why.
Not quite magical realism, but more than a paranoid delusion, this story imagines someone paying a real price for past cruelties, lies and self-deceptions.
When all your library requests become available! 😀😮🤔 #bookhaul #wheredoistart?
1) West of Denver
2) Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (I feel like a broken record)
3) The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
4) I Want to Go Home by Gordon Korman
5) Brideshead Revisited (young Jeremy Irons 😍)
6) My Heart Hemmed In by Marie NDiaye
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pickThis book is strange and nightmarish, and also beautiful and haunting. Also deeply psychological. An experimental novel about the mind and identity and how our pasts haunt us. Not for the faint of heart or the inexperienced reader, but also really great.
This book is seriously freaking me out. So nightmarish.
