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Two painters, both called Asle, live on the West coast of Norway; one of them is the narrator. They look identical and their lives seem two different versions of the same life.
The novel is written in stream of consciousness but the prose is slow and flows so beautifully. Their story is very intriguing, they interact with each other and it feels like one of them is a sort of an alter ego. It makes the reader wonder if both lives are real.

Absolutely beautiful .A stream of consciousness novel , it reads melodically like poetry.About caring , art , memory, & forgetting. It is made up of the stuff of life .I wasn‘t expecting to love it as much as I did , bring on the next part .

One of my cats didn‘t eat breakfast and I feel cruddy so the schedule for today changed.I‘m glad I feel well enough to read.

Thanks for the tag @tournevis 😘 Sorry for the delay as it's already Thursday!

1. My nephew sent me this photo recently of my niece, Daisy 🐶 They live in Sydney so it's been awhile since I've seen her! Girl knows how to strike a pose.
2. Valancy Stirling in L. M. Montgomery's The Blue Castle. The ultimate fantasy of life is shit but all your dreams can come true if you're good & who doesn't need that?
3. Tagged book

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

I lost myself in this meandering, reflective novel by Norwegian author Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls). The first of a 3-volume septet, this is a book "about" two elderly men, both painters, both named Asle, living near each other on the Norwegian coast. Doppelgangers, pairings, repetition; there's a theme running through it but no plot. The stream of consciousness prose grabbed me the most at its most ecstatic & poetic. Strangely captivating.

This was... fine. Nice writing albeit very wordy, I don‘t feel like I ‘got‘ it really and I get frustrated by books that seem to want you to have fourteen degrees to keep on top of what‘s happening (if anything). I read it slowly and despite some lovely sections it didn‘t feel like the writing was in service of anything bigger really, I found it forgettable.

#bookerinternational2020