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#falltreasures #faceoncover Love her art ! It was a weird story as I recall ….
Cruddy: A Novel | 
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If anyone wants to play please join in.The people I keep wanting to tag I think are already playing.😀
1 cover everyday for 7 days.No explanation needed .
"And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real. It wasn't her fault that the father wandered into her life. Chance blew the father in a lot of directions. He rolled around this way and he rolled around that way, deforming everything he brushed up against."
"And when the train is gone, there is a kind of silence called a ringing silence. Something like the negative shape of sound. People call it a ringing but this word isn't quite right. I think it's more like the sound you hear when you are drowning, when water encloses you and keeps air away from you and sound moves differently to reach your ears."
"And then I thought about different silent letters I knew about and if it was possible to put them all together and spell a silent word."
"The pictures were warped and greenish and of course there were the dried-out dead flies laying below them. Flies die in so many lonely places."
"And his eyes were blue. That terrifying pale blue you see on dolls that have eyes that open and shut. His looked like they would shut forever once you knocked him over."
"There was a fly in the car with the father and I. I wasn't sure if he was a slaughterhouse fly or just a middle-of-nowhere fly. One that got in when no one was noticing. And I wondered what it was going to be like for him when he got out again. What would he think when he flew out of the car and didn't recognize anything or anybody?"
"Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe is a good place to go when you are left wondering what finally became of the person you stabbed and then left in the sun."
#UncannyOctober Day 9: #FirstPersonNarrator often has raw, earthy, vulnerable voices. Love Lynda Barry‘s novels so am excited to read this one.
TFW your friend is so stunned you haven't read a certain book, they immediately mail you a copy. (TBH, I'm pretty stunned I haven't read it, either.) ☺️📚🤘🏻
In Woodstock today, so I popped over to the Golden Notebook. Here were my two picks. A book about authors' favorite bookstores and a book about a drug using journalist with great illustrations.
pickLoved this. Every minute of it, even though it was all fairly uncomfortable.
Going to read this, an actual physical book, that one of my sweeties gave me before we were sweeties. I've been putting it off because ugh physical books, but I need to cut that out and read it already.
Writing desk here at the MacDowell Colony. ✨
pickIt's #FunFridayPhoto time! This was chosen by @tkmadden "The book I recommend most often is Lynda Barry's CRUDDY. This novel is a dark, twisted, stunner narrated by 16-year-old Roberta Robheson, writing her autobiography. The majority of the story takes place on a father daughter road trip murder spree, but it's so much more than that. It's a tender examination of loyalty and blood. (Cont. below)
pickCruddy is my favorite novel ever consumed. I have just finished it and find myself paralyzed; trapped still in its bloody, cruddy world. Does anyone have any further recommendations?
"No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected."
Favorite book in the whole world.
