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Book 7 from my #10BeforetheEnd pile.

A thumbs up because the writing is great, but the content is depressing.

I only read the novella (short story? Only 58 pages long) “Miss Lonelyhearts” from this bind up because I‘d already read “The Day of the Locusts”. Disturbing, sad, bathetic, grotesque…the writer of the agony aunt column becomes depressed/obsessed with the mass of humanity and their real problems that cannot be solved with advice.

“The cigarette was imperfect and refused to draw.”

#anglophileapril

(Day 29 - #OwnerOfALonelyHeart)

*I‘m soooo literal....

The first novella is this two novella volume was so-so/2 stars for me. Parts were brilliant but overall, it didn't work for me. My two star rating description from my GR page: "It was ok. Maybe a little more than ok, maybe a little less. It might have been really good in parts. But overall it was flat and left me a bit cold." That about sums it up. I'll give it a "it was a little more than ok" but not much. Maybe 2.5 ⭐️s On to Day of the Locust.

I've barely read three pages and this is already depressing the hell out of me. Yikes. @Waynegjr Classics in Brief @RoscoeBooks Book Club, July.

NOT FOR ME.

⭐️

Well, I'm finding this pretty awful so far.

I'd Bail but it's only 110 pages. 😬

"'But that reminds me, I'm expecting one of my admirers - a cow-eyed girl of great intelligence.' He illustrated the word intelligence by carving two enormous breasts in the air with his hands. 'She works in a book store, but wait until you see her behind.'"

I started to read this one because I read that Flannery O'Connor was influenced by Nathanel West. I've recently started to admire O'Connor, so I'm trying to learn as much from and about her as possible. I can certainly see how she was influenced by Miss Lonelyhearts, and I'm not even very far into it.