pickDefinitely different than Sonnenblick‘s other novels; however, this book did not disappoint. A 15 year old boy, who struggles with his relationship with his dad, travels back in time. During this time, he goes to Woodstock, meets his uncle that died of a heroin overdose before he was born, falls in love, and genuinely gets to know his dad. The Woodstock experience was told with amazing detail and I enjoyed every minute of this book!
The draft to the original story for Pea Soup Disaster. I wrote this about 20 years ago! Back then, it was simply called Gregory Green.
❤️
❤️
❤️
❤️
#litsy #picturebook #throwback #draft
I finally FINALLY finished Melymbrosia. It was mostly mediocre and racist, far from what I'd expect from a writer of Woolf's caliber. I guess that's what I get for buying into the "never-published unfinished early novel!" thing.
"Raymond says he'll shoot himself if I don't marry him and I say "Well, shoot yourself!" but of course he doesn't--they never do."
"When you think that you have only one life--just for a second and all that waste of sea behind you and before you--and that other human beings should interfere with the smallest moment of it--then you hate them more than anything in the world."
"If I had a daughter I should give her a square of cardboard painted blue and make her think of infinity every day."
Ms. Woolf just HAD to drop a random anti-Semitic remark into the narration. Gawd, the British. 😒
""If I were you," said Evelyn..."I'd raise a troop and conquer some great territory and make it splendid....I'd love to start life from the very beginning as it ought to be--nothing squalid--but great halls and gardens and splendid men and women."
....
"It isn't any territory in particular," Evelyn explained. "It's the idea, don't you see? We lead such tame lives.""
No Interwar novel is complete without at least one proto-fascist. ?
"A cold breeze played upon them, refreshing as the spray of a douche."
Today in odd similes: the wind that gives you a yeast infection.
