Mislaid: A Novel | 
Kids both on zoom, laundry started, house picked up, and I‘m showered and dressed, all by 8:30. 🙌🏻 That calls for some quiet time reading.
The purse I got for my birthday has an awesome feature—a book pocket!
pickWith clever writing this book explores themes such as gender, race, and sexuality. I found myself enjoying the majority of this book but found myself skimming through the last part.
God morning!!!
A little coffee and reading before I start my day.
pickA lesbian and a gay man get married, have two children... and a decade-plus-long escapade ensues, involving fake ids, drug dealing, mistaken racial identity, and a squirrel sanctuary. The culmination is Shakespearean, with a dash of Three‘s Company thrown in. I don‘t know if I learned anything, but I sure had fun 😜
Squeeeee! 🤗 Checked in my library‘s newest OverDrive titles just after a massive new list of titles. Grabbed these beauties!!!! #LibraryHaul
"A round of billiards with sailors is more beautiful than Charleston in springtime, if they're the right sailors." Just started this. Nell Zink is a genius.
Ok, littens, must admit that my volunteering at the book sale sorting session isn't entirely altruistic, I get first dibs! Where should I start??
I wonder how much differently I would read this in print? 🤔
pickThis is a feel good story about a dysfunctional family. Race, homosexuality, poverty, poetry, sex and drugs: all come together in the story of Peggy, Lee and their children Mireille and Byrdi, set in Virginia.
Written so vividly and without drama I really enjoyed this novel and will check out Zink's other books.
Littens! Help needed. I am going to a Bachelorette this weekend. Probably not a lot of reading time available. However! I still obviously need to pack books. What do I bring? I want some things light and fun that I can easily be distracted from. Here are some titles I pulled from my shelves. Does Litsy have any thoughts on these??? Halp!
It's not really about my book - it's more about my first attempt at baking using coconut oil, flour and sugar 🌴🌴🌴For 🥕🍎 muffins they are incredibly moist and just a tad coconutty. I think it's Paleo friendly @saresmoore and the book is a tad nutty in its own right🙄
pickSuper smart and wryly funny. Drags a little in the last three quarters but Zink's staunch focus on being an entertainer is refreshing.
This is so good. It's SO GOOD. It's so--not boring. It's so--not trying to be unique.
pickI didn't expect to like this book after reading reviews about it but the premise was so bizarre I decided to give it a go. Zink certainly gets points for creativity. Perhaps not for everyone but I did end up liking it.
bailedThe sixth book I've bailed on this month, and the second audiobook. Much too snarky for my taste, or at least this month. Not even Laurence Bouvard - the narrator who made The Portable Veblen come so alive - could redeem this one in my ears.
Just picked this up as an #ebook and on #Audible. I enjoyed it when I read it before, and the narration is good so far. Not a lot of dialogue, though.
"The poets reminded her of barflies, in love with their own wisecracks, stiffing the bartender because they don‘t know what work is. But freedom isn‘t speaking your mind freely. Freedom is having the money to go to Mexico"
"If you have to be bad, be so bad sympathetic hearers just shake their heads and give up.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid
“She had read enough lives of the poetesses to know all about inpatient psychiatric care.”
― Nell Zink, Mislaid
pickThe latter half of the book gets almost bogged down with plottiness while reuniting the estranged characters, never delving into the complexities of the taboo issues the novel prods in its first half (Who's asking it to? This isn't that book). In the end it isn't the social taboos that reverberate but the stunningly unique characters. Each of them are believably fallible, even if the entire situation in which they're (mis)laid is unbelievable.
I wish these tiny humans would just let me read.
pickLove Nell Zink for her originality and offbeat humor. Mislaid is delightful and it looks like Amazon has the ebook for $2.99 today for those of you who want to snatch this up!
Why Amazon Kindle deals are bad for my wallet, but good for my heart. ❤️
I do this thing where I find an author I connect with and then I resist reading their other books. Then I pick one up and love it and wonder why I wasted all that time reading books by other authors. I mean, I know why I do it: to find more writers I connect with and in different ways. What I'm saying is that I really like Nell Zink.
pickVery quirky novel. Not sure where it was going but it had a wonderful ending. Definitely worth reading or even better listen (narration was exquisite) to.
She would be the Bronte of warm, malarial moors, the dramatist of the Great Dismal Swamp.
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Toddler is out for the day and baby is napping well for the first time in a week. 🙌🏻👓📚📖📚
Always wanted to read this. On sale on Audilble.com for $4.95
Nell Zink's fiction will pick you up by the lapels and shake you
"You think if you fence men out, women will finally flower and go to seed"
