pickI really like this short read. Imagine if the rain would wipe out your memory. Just crazy.
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pickI really like this short read. Imagine if the rain would wipe out your memory. Just crazy.
so-soMy second book read for #CanadaReads, and I wanted to love this one so much more than I did. The narrative that fractured into an almost dream-like state SHOULD have been totally my jam, but I just felt disconnected and confused. I think there are about five different books here, and they don't quite come together in any cohesive way. I'm left wondering why? Why tell this story in this way? Why leave certain alleys unexplored?
pickIt feels really weird to have red this in the current social and political climate of today. Finishing this I could see a couple of different ways to interpret this book but I think what stands out to me is commentary of the disappearance of truth in regards to memory.
pickYeah. Reread confirms, this is a book that's going to stay with me. I'm glad it's one I own, so I can revisit, probably annually. I think having experienced Tigerman by Nick Harkaway this past year, I have a new scale for 'heart-ripped out' books that affected me emotionally, but even knowing what was coming, this one still got to me. Grief, unshakeable, self-annihilating grief, is the undercurrent throughout the story, 1/?
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
-Mark Twain
In all these years of reading, I have a lot of books and quotes in my memory. Some of them are really remarkable and worth writing down somewhere and sharing with others.
#25alive #memory #possibility
@alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#25Alive #memory I lost my dear old man Nacho last year, not getting over it . 😢 #CatsofLitsy
