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3.5 Stars • Frank O'Hara's "Selected Poems" is all about capturing life's moments as they happen, especially in New York City. His poems are like personal chats or diary entries, mixing everyday life with art and culture. He writes about things like having lunch or hearing about Billie Holiday's death, making everyday stuff seem poetic. ⬇️

Between Kentucky and New York
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Starting my climb up #MtCookbook with homemade tortillas from the Farmhouse cookbook. Not bad for my first attempt.

Starting this 1942 novel. Opening 21 pages are terrific.

Hmm. 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.

Like 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

Finally! A book I actually read for AP English! Don‘t ask me about it, though, because I don‘t remember a thing. 🤣
This helped bring my score to 14/100 for this segment. Highlights from more recent reads:
1. Persuasion
2. Purple Hibiscus
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany
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I 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)

A 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.