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Who am I fooling? I quit.

I don‘t like it. I don‘t like most of the writing style. I don‘t like the narration. I don‘t like the personnel.

I can‘t relate.

I‘m narrow-minded and spoilt. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I‘m on the brink of bailing. I just can‘t figure out which of my traits is the problem. Am I too old❓Too stuffy❓ Jack hardly left Denver – and I‘m so annoyed. 🙄 They stray around, drinking and screwing things up (like drunk teens usually do) and in between the reader finds a “gem-ish” sentence.

And that‘s all❓ For the next 300 pages❓ For me, that‘s not “the road” or “awakening”, it‘s the story of a time only those involved find life changing.

A friend recommended this to me after I asked him for some all time favourites.

I‘m not sure if I‘m prepared for this. I expect something like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” – which _absolutely_ wasn‘t my cup of tea. (We only watched the movie, but still. “Needless and a waste of money” was what I said during the closing titles. 🤷🏽‍♀️)

I hope this one will be different. Lighter. Less dark.

So, let‘s go. I won‘t know, if I don‘t start.

Buuuuut, Littens I saved the best for last. Look 👀 ‼️
“Maybe” I ordered something online because of the lockdown and “maybe” some bycatch jumped into my shopping cart. 😊

I felt the need to think outside the box and asked a friend, also an avid reader, for books I should read. He gave me a choice and see above what I picked.

I was surprised that there are 2 versions. One abbreviated obviously and the original scroll.

#HeatOfJuly
Day 3
@Cinfhen @BarbaraBB
🎶... I
Know we loved to hit the road & laugh
But something told me that it wouldn't last...🎶
I read this shortly after finishing high school. Kerouac's improvisational prose is undeniably influential & memorable.

Glad I read the original scroll. Mad, but the freneticism is so fresh and vibrant.

#quotsynov17 #lost

The love of "mad people " quote, is what attracted me to this book. I'm currently reading this, and can't get enough!
#ontheroad #jackkerouac

What a road and ride indeed! Although taking place in the late American 1940ies this book and story is perhaps just as relevant today as then. Feeling a lack and loss of meaning with life, the main charachters crosses the American continent back and forth searching for IT. A bit heavy in the beginning I couldn't put it down for the rest of it!. A great read!

Hey y'all! I'm thinking of taking a road trip this weekend to Tulsa or Omaha. Do you guys know of any great bookish places in either of those cities? 💜💜

Not book related but greetings from Wyoming. I snapped this when we stopped for gas. We're enjoying a long road trip to Vegas where my husband grew up to spend Christmas with family. I love road trips!! 🚗

I am having fun at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh this morning. Love this display!💛📚💛

I didn't make it to #bookriotlive but I did get to visit some bookstores in San Francisco - One in the old Beat district of North Beach

Today's #photoadaynov16 is an interesting one and it took me awhile to put it together! I read Blood Beast a long time ago and loved it and the series at the time. I've read no Agatha Christie but this one has been on my list for awhile and On The Road is possibly my least favourite book in recent memory if not ever so a pretty wide selection today! #planestrainsandautomobiles

Page 156

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Pg 306-307

Now, you just dig them in front..They have worries ... But they need to worry, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch on to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, a false really false expression of concern and even dignity and all the time it flies by them and they know it and that TOO worries them NO end. Listen!

Page 326

"Oh, a girl like that scares me" I said. "I'd give up everything and throw myself at her mercy and if she didn't want me I'd just as simply go and throw myself off the edge of the world."

Page 314

Things are so hard to figure when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Page 113

...but then they danced down the street like dingldodies and I shambled after as usual as I've been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing..but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night.

Page 120-121

I wasn't scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost...I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then that strange red afternoon.

Read this if you have a slight fascination with the original Hipsters, hitchhiking, California, poetry, the Beat Movement, friendship or life in general. This book has all of this and more. Kerouac' writing style is half tongue-in-cheek and half stream-of-consciousness, and does not disappoint.

Heading out to Minneapolis for #heartland16! Any Littens onsite? I'll be signing at the Closing Reception today & spreading #getindie love on a bookstore tour tomorrow.

Don't even think about stealing at Porter Square Books. #getindie

"I like too many things and get all confused and hungup running from one thing to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion." ☄ In my 20 or so years of reading, there are many quotes I dearly love but there are only a handful of quotes that when I read them, I think "Me. This is me." This is one of them. #LitsyFeature

Excited to find this at Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago today.

The OG's of #bookishsquads -Ginsberg and Cassady.

I got my Stars Hollow box from Litcube today. If you are a GG fan you will know how much I love the shirt that you can't see. It says "Babette ate oatmeal"!❤️

Ok kill me. I hated this. Only got about 1/3rd through because it was a book club choice. Guess my expectations were too high given how Classic it is supposed to be.

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac!