so-soHmm. Does it work? This novel is actually two separate stories in each in a kind of distinct contrast. Chapters alternate. One is a medical student who abandons his career to run off with a married woman. The other is a convict who gets lost during the 1927 Mississippi flood, and finds himself floating alone in a small boat with a woman in labor.
These stories are ok, but really only for Faulkner completists.
pickLike with most short story collections, I liked some more than others. So many were heartbreaking. But also full of love of family. Sony‘s Gone might have been my favorite, but The Bones of Louella Brown was also a favorite. #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
so-soI remember reading and studying “Hands“ in college so I wanted to revisit it and read the whole collection.
The short stories are all somewhat interconnected and multifaceted. I found some a lot more interesting and deep than the others. There is a loose plot but mostly it's vignettes focusing on specific characters with one exaggerated theme (what used to be called grotesques)
pickA strange and obscure little book written in the 1920s, about a rural Ohio woman torn between her husband and a lover. As Dawn Powell‘s biographer puts it well, this novel reads as romance fiction but with all the dark and bleak stylization of a Theodore Dreiser story.
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Steady reading week, finished ROTK that I've been stalling. This weekend I started Winesburg, Ohio because I wanted something different. I remember studying a section of it in college, but I had forgotten all of it. I have some YouTube analysis videos prepared for when I finish it in a few days.
I will also start witness today, it has been too long.
📚CR:
🎧Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf
🎧The Witness for the Dead
🎧Winesburg, Ohio
pickThis was a pretty fascinating read. Most of the chapters are from the point of view of a specific character, some told in first person POV and some in third, and some of them dragged a little, while others were gripping. The time period also changed depending on the character, and I did get the Willson men mixed up occasionally. The ending was disconcerting, but overall I enjoyed the book.
