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 .
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