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I finished my Feb #bookspin, The Assistant, last night and am calling my Feb #bookspinbingo board complete.

The Assistant was a sad story, a meditation on stuck-ness and inevitability in life, but it was also hard to put down. My first Malamud, but probably not my last.

For the second month in a row, I didn‘t get to my #doublespin. Let‘s see what March has in store!

I was tempted to bring some work to do while I wait at the vet, but it‘s been a long week, so I‘m just gonna read 🤓

Hey, everybody! I got that job I interviewed for last week!!! *insert little rascals happy dance*
Thanks to all those who gave me words of support and encouragement! I feel really good about this new change, which is actually coming quick- I'm supposed to start Monday! 😮 So...read ALL THE BOOKS by Monday?! 😂😂

#OccupationInTitle #FallIntoBooks @RealLifeReading This one is a #tbr based on its inclusion in the Time magazine all-time 100 books list.

It frustrated him hopelessly that every move he made seemed to turn into an inevitable thing.

Gave in to peer pressure and I managed to read 4 books during jury duty! I couldn't pick just one favorite but The Assistant blew me away! I went in knowing very little about plot or author and now count myself as a fan. Somehow Malamud has become a lost classic that need a resurgence!

Themes of our prejudices and the possibility of changing; both how people can change and how we can be changed by those around us. Morris and Frank are unforgettable characters. This forgotten classic should be talked about more! It's so good! 4.5 ⭐️

She feared most of all the great compromise - she had seen so many of the people she knew settle for so much less than they had always wanted. [...] Her constant fear, underlying all others, was that her life would not turn out the way she hoped, or would turn out vastly different."

2/2 "....to clean it out of his self and bring in a little peace, a little order; to change the beginning, beginning with the past that always stupendously stank up the now - to change his life before the smell of it suffocated him."

1/2 "....that he had known all his life he would sometime, through throat blistered with shame, his eyes in the dirt, have to tell some poor son of a bitch that he was the one who had hurt or betrayed him"

"He labored long hours, was the soul of honesty - he could not escape his honesty, it was his bedrock; to cheat would cause an explosion in him, yet he trusted cheaters - coveted nobody's nothing and always got poorer." Seems like appropriate choice for day 2 jury pool reading