The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break | 
#ManicMonday #LetterM @JoScho
- Book: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
- Author: Minister Faust aka Malcolm Azania
- Movie: The Muppet Movie
- Band: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Song: Made Out of Nothing (All That I Am) by Coheed & Cambria
Crazy week; much behind. Thanks for the tags @JenlovesJT47 @Gissy and @Nessavamusic !! ♥️♥️♥️
#wondrouswednesday
1. Leathy
2. Tagged ☺️
3. They have, but I generally try to go into books blind 😎
4. I 💗 a pretty cover! But I *can* look past a bad one. Usually. 😁
#thursdaysurvey
1. Foundryside, easy
2. A Year of Mornings?
3. Tons 😄 My TBR is mountainous 🏔
4. Goodreads, modest goal, ahead of the game💥
Happy Friday!! 🌈🌺💗
Here‘s my Top 10 Favorite books that I read this year, whittled down from a list of 18 really great ones.
Also of note, while I read some meh books and some that just weren‘t for me, I did not encounter any truly garbage books this year.
Hope everyone reads some wonderful books in 2019!
I need to read this!! Heard about it on #thelibrarianisin podcast. Putting it on hold at library now!
pick5,000 years ago the Minotaur cut a deal with Theseus and snuck out the back door of the Labyrinth.
After wandering down through the years he finds himself living in a trailer park in rural North Carolina, fixing cars during the day and working at a steakhouse in the evenings. He is lonely. He is us.
I am in awe of this book. The writing was humorous, melancholy, and astoundingly beautiful. I will hold it in my heart forever.
I started this book in the fall of 2004, the start of my senior year in college. I remember loving it. I remember passage after passage brought me near tears with its simple beauty. But I never finished it...
This happened a lot back then, actually. It wasn‘t until Goodreads that I kept up with my reading in any real way and I was prone to dropping a book, even if it was wonderful, if something with a shiny cover came along.
So here we are.
pickI missed the boat on this when it came out in 2000, but I'm so glad it came back around. Exquisitely tender writing about the minutia of daily life, against a backdrop of the eternal need to belong. Stunning and wonderful. Please read it.
#aprilbookshowers day 2: #mythology
I went on a slightly different route and picked some books that are fictional retellings or reimaginings of some mythological figures.
I haven't read Weight or Lavinia yet but they sound good.
Excited to read this one, which seems like a more lyrical American Gods: the mythical Minotaur, after surviving for more than 5,000 years, finds himself eking out a mediocre existence as a line cook in the American South. "The Minotaur wakes without an alarm clock and always has..." (I heard about this book on the @OverDrive Professional Book Nerd podcast!) #TBR
Minotaur sequel.....The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time. A surprisingly human story.
