pickA strange and obscure little book written in the 1920s, about a rural Ohio woman torn between her husband and a lover. As Dawn Powell‘s biographer puts it well, this novel reads as romance fiction but with all the dark and bleak stylization of a Theodore Dreiser story.
They asked me to describe the pain but the pain defied description, on a scale of one to ten it demanded a different scale.
#FirstLineFriday
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.
An update on my #192025 challenge: these are the books I finished in the past few months. 79 prompts done and 27 left to go. I'm optimistic I can finish this by the end of the year!
@Librarybelle
Forty-five books read this year 📚
Not shown:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappe
Hikaru No Go, vols. 14, 15,17, and 19
Night, Eli Weisel
pickA short but poignant novel set partly during the Christmas season. I love the #VMC covers and was happy to have found this edition at a used book store.
#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks
#gottacatchemallwinteredition (tbr) #FrozenSick @PuddleJumper
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1926 @Librarybelle
