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This year I‘ll be reading! I was just mentioning to the BF that I usually have a tracker and updates on for the Super Bowl, but not this year. I just really really don‘t like these two teams. So, I‘ll be reading to my hearts content this evening, with a little Trollope and Williams‘, STONER. Both, are excellent thus far.
#bookbowl

Last night, I started STONER by John Williams. I admit sheepishly that I‘ve had this on my TBR for far too long!! 🙈 I read Williams‘ other novel, Butcher‘s Crossing w/ a bookclub. I‘ve been told if one compares them side to side, the writing style is night and day. So I‘m very curious to see the differences between the two, along with why this book is so beloved by those that have read and reviewed the book already. Review to come.

"Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read."

#stoner #fraktura

"Ljubav prema književnosti, prema jeziku, prema tajnama uma i srca koje se očituju u gotovo neznatnim, neobičnim i neočekivanim kombinacijama slova i riječi, u najcrnjem i najhladnijem tisku - ljubav koju je dotad skrivao kao da je nezakonita i opasna - sad je počeo otvoreno izražavati, u početku oprezno i nesigurno, potom odvažno i na kraju ponosno."
#stoner #johnwilliams #fraktura

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousand of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying pages as if it were an exotic incense. #Stoner