It‘s my lunch break and i‘m in a phone room in my office, about to start this book. I finished Love Forms this morning. #booker #Booker2025
so-soI like books that have little or no plot if the writing is good and the characters interesting. Here the prose is good, but focussed on the minutae, the characters interesting but not allowed to shine. The pace is glacial. And the ending is 🤷🏻♀️🫤
I'm left feeling like I've been teased with bits and pieces of a good story, but instead of filling in the gaps Miller has given in to a Knausgardian impulse to describe how people brush their teeth.
Morning all. I‘m in a bit of a book hangover, as I adored Audition by Katie Kitamura. So it‘s hard getting into another book. But this one has a lovely opening. And i‘ll spend part of my morning here.
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I‘m on chapter 3. Everyone seems bewildered trying to understand this one. Little 🧠 primed. #booker #Booker2025
panWhat was that???
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Goodness, I‘m still thinking about this. Our main character, István, fascinates without saying anything. A book of spare prose, raging underneath. I was sucked in, raced through its 350 spare pages in 4 days. You love István, and he‘s awful, and does awful stuff. But suffers awful stuff too without ever a complaint. Just saying, “ok”. And not much else. I‘ll leaven the masculinity stuff off this mini review. ?
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🐌s, an industry of Ukraine brides for foreign bachelors, and the gruesome invasion.
I was nervous at first, but the book does a shift at about page 100, a metafictional interlude. The context changes and what I didn‘t like before i suddenly adored. I finished having really enjoyed it, and having been smitten. It was fun and disarmingly deep. I'm still thinking on it.
I‘m 1/3 through my current read. So far it‘s elegant and complex and i‘m loving it, even if i need breaks.
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I get so excited about the #Booker longlist, and then I start the 1st book, and it‘s like - wait, who are you? I need to step back and look a bit and get acquainted with this year‘s list of books. Can‘t take these relationships too fast…. This one is 1st. Possibly my only one on audio. Not sure yet if this ten year old in the prolonged is a sociopath. #Booker2025
