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Weekly Highlights

Indians on Vacation: A Novel by Thomas King

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

In The Fog of the Season‘s End by Alex La Guma

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They forecasted lots of snow and they weren't wrong. And it's still snowing! On the upside, my fake Xmas tree has never looked better. And I managed to finish two books yesterday. The tagged book and Rebecca Makkai's 100 Year House, which I really enjoyed!

Starting my #doublespin. I loved her novel The First Bad Man so expecting I will like these stories. Also expecting they will be strange.
@TheAromaofBooks

1. I‘m going back and forth between A Curious Beginning and Before the Fall, bit for book clubs next week.
2. Land of Love and Drowning for #bookspin
3. Mostly Harmless, I‘d Rather Be Reading, No One Belongs Here More Than You

#wondrouswednesday

#14 of my year! My favorite music artist, Justin; Crywolf, references this book often and so of course that means I have to devour it and read it for myself. It‘s been on my TBR list for over a year and I‘m happy to finally get to it. #thattitleispowerful

#Modern #QuotsyJune19
@TK-421

Some interesting nuggets in here.

I am working on this short story collection, some are really good but others feel incomplete.

Is it just me or does this museum exhibit sound like the title of a Miranda July book? (Side note: it makes me so happy that there‘s a place like Litsy where someone might get this reference)

Currently reading! What did you guys think of it?

Hoping this doesn't disappoint 😬

I am on page 19 and I like it so far, I can't wait to see what happens 😊

Here are some yellow spines for #riotgrams day 2!

This is a tough one! Karen Russell's short stories are some of my favorite, but Miranda July has my heart ❤ #READATHONSTORIES @Liberty

This was an odd collection and it's pretty hit and miss there were some stories I really didn't like but I would say that most were very good. The last half is the best half there were stories that had me near tears. She really captures loneliness and longing. No matter how odd the situations in the stories are you can always connect to the main character in them. I wish there was an option btwn pick and so-so 😕

This was an extremely uneven collection of short stories. Most were so random and annoying that I didn't even want to finish the book, making me really wonder how this ever got published. Then there were those 2 or 3 that weren't actually bad... Perhaps the biggest problem here is that every story has the same voice, so that even though they're supposed to be about different people they all end up being so very Miranda July.

I don't mind, he can have this one.

Wow, can this crap be over soon? 😳 (Uh, no, I've got like 40% left.)

#riotgrams - This is my only pink cover. ❤ Miranda July

I tried reading some French postcolonial highbrow literature and couldn't even manage 3 pages, so I picked up this instead. Feels way more accessible.

I probably wouldn't have finished this is it weren't for the audiobook. But Miranda's live readings really transformed this collection into something delightful to listen to on a long walk in the cold. ⛄

For my #FunFridayPhoto:

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. These short stories are weird, unforgettable and moving. Also: the title is just a great thing I need to remind myself of sometimes. On the left is a self portrait drawn by my six-year-old.

The only story that has stayed clear in my memory in the ten years since first reading is The Swim Team - teaching people to swim on the floor in a town with no pool - still as wonderful in audio, read by the author. The whole collection is fresh, funny & darkly intimate. Love her take on the ordinary weirdness of people, especially in the sexual realm. #queerbooks

I thought maybe I would swing by and see if his car was out front. It was either this or begin a career as something other than a writer. If I thought of another career before I got to the house, I would turn around and pursue that. I made the car go slowly, so that everyone could see it was thinking. It was considering careers for me.

#librarylove So happy that my library offers OverDrive! I've got bird science and science fiction and a reread of funny, dark short stories, as well as an ebook in my pocket (for when I finish Burney's Cecilia): Lisa Moore's latest - Flannery. #somethingforseptember

Parts of this were brilliant, but the majority of it made me feel miserable and sleazy.

'It could be an email re: your knighthood. Or a long, laughing, rambling phone message in which every person this person has ever known is talking on a speakerphone and they are all saying, You have passed the test, it was all just a test, we were only kidding, real life is so much better than that.'

For #day9 of the #augustphotochallenge, here are nine (get it?) of my #alltimefavebooks. Can you spot which one is most read based on wear and tear? #augustofpages

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Photo- day 6 (minimum words!) #augustofpages #bookphotochallenge

Deeply, deeply weird. I expected to connect more with the book than I actually did, but it was still interesting and original. Miranda July certainly has a voice that is all her own.

Some light morning reading.

The inscription in my new-to-me used book

It was okay! Well written but it made me feel really weird.

"Strange"stories about people who all long for the something missing in their lives. They all have slight quirks that get pretty unique each successive story. The audiobook is read by July and was excellent. Line by line often laugh-out-loud funny and at times sad.

"This was tremendously thrilling for one of us. One of us had always been in love with the other. One of us lived in a perpetual state of longing"

$5 book sale find #17:
Apparently, she's fabulous!

Signed first edition of "No one belongs here more than you" and a limited edition signed copy of "The Boy From Lam Kein" by Miranda July. They could be yours for $50 and $75 respectively. Email rareinfo @ strandbooks.com to purchase!

If I ever have children, I would never let Miranda July around my children.

10/10 would listen to her weird, funny, awkward, sexual, and otherworldly ramblings again.

So-so rating. Some stories were a lot better than others though. Not for everyone

"...because we were in the same business I didn't have to explain that typo meant typographical error. If Elena had come out we'd have had to stop using our industry lingo." Miranda July I love you.