so-soHugely anticipated this and then it felt odd.
I had a brief idea of the plot but not enough to pre empt what it would read like.
I think I need a book club focus on it?
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Oh. Ah well.
#notmyfavourite !
Just announced the winner of this year‘s Booker Prize
I‘m quite happy about this since I enjoyed it while I read it
pickWhite US male has mild midlife crisis and takes a roadtrip whilst re-evaluating his life and thinking a LOT about basketball. Everything is so mundane and unexceptional, it is both realistic and dreary. Very readable and I enjoyed all but the technical basketball talk. This is so American I would expect it to be a Pulitzer candidate (except Greer already won with a funnier version), but I am surprised to see it on the #Booker shortlist. Soft pick.
so-soTom promised that he would divorce his wife as soon as their youngest left for college after finding out about her affair. He drops off Miri at her dorm and just keeps driving.
This was an interesting book because the ending gives you a lot to think about. It takes a while to find the interesting parts, because not a lot of interesting things happen in the story, but at the end I felt that I was following someone's real life.
3.5⭐️
pickMiddle-aged middle-class man takes a midlife-crisis road trip. I‘m being snarky; this is a sweet book with an engaging narrative voice, and sums up well the uncertainties of this time of life from the male perspective. However re the Booker shortlisting, this one doesn‘t quite get there for me - SURELY the midlife-road-trip-crisis novel of the year must be All Fours? I am intrigued and puzzled as to why this would be chosen over that👇
I was hooked by the opening chapter where an older woman is seducing a young boy. This is almost like a reverse Bartleby the Scrivner as the main character passively agrees to almost anything.
The feeling when:
You take your eye off the library hold list for one minute and everything comes rushing in.
Full on Murphy's Law.
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