Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#KurtVonnegut
blurb
MaggieCarr
post image

Confetti #1 (Peculiar Travel Suggestions...) 2004
Digital Silk Screen Image

review
catiewithac
post image
Mehso-so

It wasn‘t a great play when it first premiered and it didn‘t age well. Vonnegut‘s problematic misogyny and homophobia really sticks out here. A necessary read for Vonnegut completists but everyone else may skip.

blurb
britt_brooke
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut
post image

Broke out my #Vonnegut pint glass. Best gift ever from @HeatherBookNerd 🩶 It‘s a beautiful evening in Tennessee, and the cicadas are calm (for now).

#dogsoflitsy

HeatherBookNerd And look at your beautiful dog. Looks like a nice evening. 6mo
britt_brooke @HeatherBookNerd Zero complaints! 6mo
Leftcoastzen 👏🐶🍺 6mo
See All 6 Comments
Cathythoughts Looks lovely and relaxing 🐶 6mo
TieDyeDude Cheers! 🍻 6mo
80 likes6 comments
review
Tamra
post image
Pickpick

Read this for IRL book club and I think I was the only one who liked it! It‘s a difficult tale to summarize but it‘s about the human condition. The absurdity he envelopes it in doesn‘t hide the sadness & consequences of loneliness. I read the prologue 3x because first, Vonnegut bares his soul in his own detached way, and second, it encapsulates the story which follows.

This is my first Vonnegut and I‘m glad to have read it.

Tamra It is scathing in the sense he criticizes all of our futile attempts to fill emotional voids with consumerism and conquest. But it also appears our misguided natures carry on into the afterlife. 🫢 (edited) 7mo
TheBookHippie I‘ve found ppl love or loathe his writings. I read his earlier stuff in my younger years, I‘ve not read anything published after 1980s. 7mo
Tamra @TheBookHippie I can definitely see he would be a cilantro writer! 7mo
See All 10 Comments
Ruthiella Great review! “Cilantro writer” 😂 I love him and his exasperation at human behavior, but for sure understand why some don‘t like his works. I‘m glad you liked it though. 👍 7mo
Tamra @Ruthiella which is your favorite? 7mo
Ruthiella I‘m certainly not even close to becoming a completist (yet). Bluebeard was my first and my favorites are Galapagos, Ca‘s Cradle and the most famous (edited) 7mo
Tamra @Ruthiella thanks for the tip! I really should try Slaughterhouse Five. 7mo
Leftcoastzen I adore him ! He just gets it . I couldn‘t pick a favorite. I probably should reread, see if I still agree with myself. 😄 7mo
Tamra @Leftcoastzen I‘m sometimes afraid to reread for fear of a book not holding up. 7mo
Leftcoastzen @Tamra me too! 7mo
55 likes1 stack add10 comments
blurb
AvidReader25
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut
post image

My city is hosting its first ever bookstore crawl! Four days, 23 participating independent bookstores, and so much fun! I‘ve made it to 10 so far and have more planned for this weekend. It‘s been delightful! I‘ve been crawling with friends and my kids and even found the best pair of book earrings! 📚 Such an incredible community event.

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 7mo
LeahBergen How wonderful! 7mo
Suet624 That‘s awesome! 7mo
39 likes3 comments
blurb
Maggie4483
post image

January #Roll100!!!

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉🎉 I never got on with D.H Lawrence 10mo
11 likes1 comment
blurb
britt_brooke
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut
post image

My husband got me this one, too. Love it!
#HappyHolidays

Ruthiella Awesome! 10mo
Bookzombie Cool! 10mo
62 likes2 comments
blurb
britt_brooke
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters | Kurt Vonnegut
post image

Y‘all. 🤩 My husband got me this gorgeous Vonnegut ornament with all his books! It will reside on the tree then move to my Vonnegut shelf for daily admiration! #HappyHolidays

Ruthiella Another one! Love it! 👍 10mo
Tamra So thoughtful! 10mo
wanderinglynn How cool! 10mo
See All 11 Comments
britt_brooke @Ruthiella Maybe I should start a Vonnegut tree 😂 10mo
BookmarkTavern Wow! 🤩 10mo
darklydreaming Beautiful! 10mo
BarbaraBB Fantastic! 10mo
batsy That's so cool! 10mo
Hooked_on_books Oh my gosh, that‘s fantastic! 10mo
Bookzombie I love this! 10mo
britt_brooke @Tamra @wanderinglynn @BookmarkTavern @darklydreaming @BarbaraBB @batsy @Hooked_on_books @Bookzombie Thank you - I love it so much! Makes me wanna revisit a few of his books in the new year! 10mo
87 likes11 comments
review
The_Penniless_Author
A Man Without a Country | Kurt Vonnegut
post image
Pickpick

A series of essays from the middle of the George W Bush years that are part old-man musings, part political rant, and part lamentation for the state of humanity. In other hands it could have come off as a bit tedious, but Vonnegut is funny and charming enough that it was a pleasure to read, even the bits I recognized as recycled from his many lectures and commencement speeches.

Ruthiella I feel like every novel I‘ve read from him is a lamentation for humanity. It‘s what I love about him. ❤️ 14mo
The_Penniless_Author @Ruthiella Absolutely, and the tone switches back and forth from humorous to melancholic so seamlessly, which I think is the best and sanest way of regarding the world. 14mo
39 likes2 comments
blurb
The_Penniless_Author
A Man Without a Country | Kurt Vonnegut
post image

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

As a kid I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

30 likes1 stack add