Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#AmericanLit
blurb
Sleepswithbooks
Happyland | J. Robert Lennon
post image

Misty!!! What an amazing box of Happy to return home to after a looong week!! I adore everything so much and I can‘t tell you how much I‘m looking forward to reading “The Women!!!” Thank you for being the sweetest man ever, wonderful Friend that you are! Love you!

#Litsylove #BookLovers #HappyMail
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

blurb
DGRachel
March Book | Jesse Ball
post image

I finished 13 books in March. Lots of middle grade and graphic novels, because that‘s all I could mentally handle. The Spear Cuts Through Water was my favorite, even though it took me two months to read. It was so worth the effort. Both of the Swifts books by Beth Lincoln were delightful. #marchwrapup

blurb
DGRachel
March Book | Jesse Ball
post image

I‘m really hoping that the #bookspin gods are kind to me and pick books that are already on my March TBR. Between library books with due dates that can‘t be extended, books clubs/buddy reads, NetGalley books that publish this month, and my library system‘s annual Community Reads program, my schedule is already packed. In fact, looking at this makes me so stressed, I may bail on everything and just watch Netflix. 😂

Suet624 Hahaha. I hear ya! 1mo
48 likes1 comment
review
ImperfectCJ
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
post image
Pickpick

Things I love:
-The pacing leaves plenty of room for emotions to develop.
-The perspective shows both the frustration of the US medical system and the wonder we can access when knocked out of our unconscious narratives.
-The writing, beautiful without being sappy.

Things that don't quite work:
-The extended treatises on poetry and music go on too long for my taste.
-The meticulous detail, which gets tedious.

Soft pick for a #tob25 longlist title

BarbaraBB I have this one waiting for me. I hope I‘ll like it as well. 1mo
45 likes1 comment
blurb
GatheringBooks
Collected Poems | Robert Bly
post image
lil1inblue 💚 💚 💚 2mo
32 likes1 comment
quote
Megabooks
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
post image

This is the start of Small Rain. It‘s something, I think, anyone who has been to a US ER with chronic illness/pain would recognize. I was just there going through this the week before Christmas.

BarbaraBB That must be confrontational! 3mo
Suet624 So many repeated questions from so many people, all with little laptops in hand. Just read what the answers were that I gave three people ago!! I hope you‘re feeling better, Meg. 3mo
sarahbarnes ♥️♥️♥️ 3mo
Butterfinger Oh no. I hope you are feeling better. Before having surgery, I would be stoic and say 5-6 on the pain scale. Really, I was just losing my balance. My spinal fluid was trapped. Afterwards, the pain between my shoulder blades is excruciating. I cringe when people try to touch it. I'm on my heating pad right now. 3mo
49 likes4 comments
review
Pinta
Best American Short Stories 2024 | Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
post image
Mehso-so

There‘s something stingy and mean in this collection, characters putting up barriers in self-preservation mode. But a few lovely ones: tender tourist in Hyderabad, urban tent housing vs. luxury safari tents, sentimental AI in Mall of America, Paul Yoon‘s mini-epic “Valley of the Moon,” Lori Ostlund‘s bubble family in “Just Another Family.” Preferred 2023 collection edited by Min Jin Lee. 2024

review
squirrelbrain
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
post image
Pickpick

I loved this. The MC, a poet, ends up in the ICU after a sudden, devastating, medical episode.

The medical bits were a tough read, and quite upsetting at times but still weirdly beautiful. The rest of the book was also full of beauty, as the MC reflected on music, art, love, poetry and dogs. ❤️

I highly recommend this, from the #toblonglist - it should have made the shortlist.

BarbaraBB Thanks to you I placed another order 🤦🏻‍♀️🩷 4mo
Hooked_on_books I loved this, too, and the feeling it gave me stuck with me. Greenwell is so good. 4mo
squirrelbrain I haven‘t read any other Greenwell @Hooked_on_books - any you would recommend? 4mo
Hooked_on_books I liked his debut, What Belongs to You. Though I think Small Rain is probably his best. 4mo
squirrelbrain Thanks Holly @Hooked_on_books - I‘ll put it on the (never-ending) TBR list! 4mo
63 likes4 stack adds5 comments
review
Anna40
Small Rain: A Novel | Garth Greenwell
post image
Pickpick

Set amidst the Covid pandemic, the narrator experiences sharp pain but waits 5 days to seek medical attention.He ends up hospitalised while the doctors are trying to figure out what caused the tear in his aorta.In less able hands this could have turned into a dull disaster but Greenwell is a poet, wonderful writer and his insights, memories, poetry analyses and observations are a pleasure to read. I didn‘t love all of it but it is a pick for me.

33 likes1 stack add