#Two4Tuesday
1. City person—love stepping out of my front door into the middle of everything.
2. The tagged book is an entertaining read and one that has several scenes set in my neighborhood—including one in the self-storage building where we have a locker! Such a random and utterly fantastic “it‘s a small world” moment.
@TheSpineView
pickA road novel set in the near future with a somewhat shambling & surprisingly naive narrator, despite the fact that he has a job as a henchman (or minion?). This is a story that is all about the journey - the underlying mystery doesn't really pay off, but I didn't mind too much - its full small pleasures & surprisingly touching moments. It reminds me a bit of an early William Gibson, crossed with what I would call redneck-noir. I liked it.
pickI‘m counting this for #Booked2022 “New in 2022”.
This is my second read from Chaon and I think he might be a new favorite. His books are creepy and complicated in a way which really appeals to me. This one is about an aging hit man/cleaner/courier who‘s so off the grid, he doesn‘t even have a legal name. When he discoverers he has a daughter, he thinks he‘s being conned…or is he? Set in a believably discomforting near future America.
pickI love Dan Chaon‘s work and this new book is excellent. Set in the US in some not so distant future, the main character is a 50 year old man named Billy who works for a mysterious company doing various shady chores. He has a dog named Flip and he travels in a small RV he has named Guiding Star. That‘s all I‘ll say except you should read this book immediately. Ten stars.
so-soI feel my enjoyment of this may have suffered some by reading it so close to Mickey7. For some reason my brain kept comparing the main characters from both books and Mickey kept coming out on top.
This book was a bit of a messy wild ride with crazy characters traveling through a dystopian world. Although I enjoyed it there was just something about it that kept me from fully connecting. But again, I think that's more me and timing than the book.
bailedSleepwalk seems like an in-depth character study of the protagonist; however, I was well into the novel without feeling like the story had advanced, so I was unable to finish. If you are looking for a slow burn with world building as it relates to the main character, you may have more success with this one.
✅ Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid, The Martian Race and The Dawn of Everything
✅ Most recently, Stephen King's Later
✅ Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon (5/24/22)
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain
pickI‘m not entirely sure what I just read but it was really well-written, a wild ride that kept me turning the pages. Will Bear lives off the grid, doing tasks for a nebulous outfit, never asking questions & keeping his head down. One day a girl claiming to be his daughter calls & things get complicated fast. Who‘s lying, who‘s telling the truth? A dystopian future that is all too believable. I suspect this one won‘t be for everyone but I liked it.
A little bit of bookish fun this morning, something that never happens—reading the tagged book, I turn the page & there is my neighborhood, including the street I live on, which is a “you have to know where it is to actually find it” sort of place, described in exacting & accurate detail. The descriptions are so good the author must have been here.
Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever stumbled across your neighborhood in a book?
#WeekendReading
It‘s a three day weekend (yay!) so lots of time for reading. The plan, so far, is to finish the tagged book and then read Curious Toys and The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle. After that, I‘ll have to see.
@Andrew65
Sleepwalk: A Novel | 
