#missingperson #newyearnewbook While definitely not my favorite of her works, this “book in a box” is a singular reading experience. “Nox is a eulogy for Anne Carson's brother, Micheal. In 1978 he ran away to Europe to avoid going to jail. For the next 22 years he communicated sporadically with his family. Some letters and postcards with no return addresses and a handful of phone calls were all that Carson knew of her brother.”
bailedWhile I did really enjoy the novel experiential act of reading this, it‘s not for me. It‘s odd and obscure even by Anne Carson‘s standards and I was just having too much trouble wrapping my brain around the thread of it.
Find Anne Carson's wonderfully eclectic booklist here: https://www.strandbooks.com/the-authors-bookshelf
Books and brunch! I got 150 pages read over brunch this morning. #paranormalromance #brunch #tarahudson #elegy #hereafter #hereaftertrilogy
so-soMy afternoon with the tagged poem, along with The Wanderer and The Seafarer. I wouldn‘t have read these by choice, but I guess I can appreciate the use of the language. The whole focus this session is on suffering and consolation.....I‘m feeling the hardship and I‘m looking forward to the consolation. 😆
pick#bookclubMarch2018 #addiction #friendship #medicalfield #physicians #elegy #eulogy #tennis#marriage #fatherhood #immigrant
This elegantly written, haunting book, speaks to many issues within the context of a deep friendship, begun with a tennis game,between two men,one of whom is a recovering addict.Their friendship is interrupted & ultimately cut short when the “beast” of addiction or as Verghese names it, “a disease of the soul”,rears its head.
pickStarted this book late at night. It‘s very short so finished it even later at night. Reading hangover today. (Must be patient with the children 😀) I loved the sparseness of this book. I wish I could write like this.
Beside me as I read. This is Fat Lily, and this is her nightly couch spot. Normally it‘s my husband who she sits next to, but she seems ok with it being me tonight. #catsoflitsy
I am really enjoying the way Sarah Manguso uses words. I may have to read every one that she has published.
