pickI thought Hadley is not for me,then I listened to the most recent The New Yorker Fiction Podcast: Savaş reads& discusses Hadley‘s An Abduction & her thoughts on Hadley‘s writing, in particular what happens inside of her characters made me want to read her again. I picked up this short story collection & am still not getting the genius of After the funeral which I had first read in the New Yorker but I loved Old Friends, Mia & My mother‘s wedding.
pickI thought all the stories in this book were interesting and well written.
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Enjoy!
I enjoyed 99 Stories of God more, but this one has some gems, too. And #72 made me guffaw.
Doing so little reading lately thanks to so much working! 😣 But this lovely bookmail from Mariner certainly makes me hope some free time magically appears soon!! 😍
My last post having been an anti-capitalist one, I have to admit that I made a rare purchase from Am@zon for this one 😞
Checking out bibliographic details of the book, I saw that they had a returned copy at a ridiculously low price and, as I definitely wouldn't have paid full price anywhere, I gave in to temptation! 🧚♂️🪄
Stableford edited a series of 18th century French contes de fées, which weirdly have overly-sexualised images of ⬇️
##TLT @dabbe
31 out of 100. Guess I don't have the most thrilling viewing habits.
Three from the list I've been meaning to watch but haven't yet:
🎬 Cat People
🎬 The Asphalt Jungle
🎬 The Big Clock
Tag: @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @Ruthiella @IndoorDame
pickMy favorite stories were Clean Teen by Francisco Gonzalez: a Latino boy raised by his grandmother is abused by his English teacher;Zikora by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie: a woman gives birth to a baby boy while remembering the child‘s father (and “their perfect relationship”) who now ghosts her; Face Time by Lorrie Moore: death and illness during the Covid pandemic.
pickThis was great! Ordinary people captured honestly, with their fears and joys and grief. Cohesive collection, with themes of absent mothers, mothering, aging, and love lost
pickAnxiety, menace, secrets. Stories with their own unpredictable logic, weird & wonderful. Uneven collection, but wow are the good ones good. Beautiful defamiliarization of ordinary actions. Attempts at connection, mindless work, masculinity, anxious parents, colluding colleagues, surreal conversations, abandoned theme parks. 2024
18 “The three of us were converging into a singularity. And that was impossible – the building couldn‘t sustain it.”
