I finally had time to watch The Gillers. If Anne Michaels writes as beautifully as she speaks, I‘m really going to have to read Held. I also really want to read Prairie Edge and Curiosities. The TBR just keeps getting bigger.
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I finally had time to watch The Gillers. If Anne Michaels writes as beautifully as she speaks, I‘m really going to have to read Held. I also really want to read Prairie Edge and Curiosities. The TBR just keeps getting bigger.
pickPerfect title! This is the book I needed this week. Relatively mindless and darkly funny millennials complaining about marriage, art, and academia.
Moddie has ended a 10-year relationship and returned to X, a small Midwestern town with a university where many of her high school friends have taken positions. When visiting artist David arrives, too, their new presence shakes up pre-existing friendships and marriages.
https://youtu.be/ghYyWMcA6ek?si=fuTZOnZUSBEK5CoS
Introduction
Bookish material girl haul
Shawn‘s biblioadventure
Lindy‘s biblioadventures
Important stuff about Patreon
Mystery guest
Weekly highlights
Held by Anne Michaels
‘I Spy the Stranger‘ by Jean Rhys
pickSet in Ireland in 1994, The Coast Road follows two women coping with their unhappy marriages at a time when divorce is still illegal. Collette left her husband, but returned, and now her husband won‘t allow her access to her children and she lives in poverty. Izzy is frustrated and miserable, struggling to find autonomy within the confines of a marriage she cannot escape. Both are considering the high cost of personal freedom. An excellent debut.
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This is a beautiful book.
It starts with a man lying on a battlefield who‘s lost all feeling in his extremities and his mind drifts off to memories. The chapters skip back and forth in time and places creating a fractured storyline. The connections in the chapters include generations of family and friends, photography, war, art weaving in and out right up to present day. It‘s poetically written and so lovely. AM is so talented
#Two4Tuesday 1. So far just milk chocolate pumpkin balls for household consumption- maybe the actual trick or treat candy this week 1. War, memories, dying. @AmyG @dabbe @Tamra wanna play ?
My library holds aren‘t really aligning with my October reading goals 🤷🏻♀️
panThe ideas and the bones of a great novel are here, but the execution felt somehow soulless.
This is a story about women's lives in the brink of the divorce referendum in Ireland, and about the men who deeply fear the loss of control that women's freedom of choices signifies. It should rage and burn, but it fails to ignite. Most of the characters feel like blanks, and I just could not bring myself to care.
