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so-soLooking forward to the discussion tomorrow. I would have DNF‘d this but it was so outrageous to me that I was able to suspend belief and just go along with the train wreck that was the MC. 3 🌟. #CampLitsy
“The subtlest change in New York is something people don‘t speak much about but that is in everyone‘s mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers…”
The language here is terrifying, and it‘s incredible that this was written in 1948, so prescient of the possibility of horror. ⬇️
pickBetween a pick&so-so.I chose this book randomly in the Swiss second hand bookstore. The MC, a man in his 50s, travels back in time to visit his family & lover. His parents don‘t know who he is, his lover is a toddler, he has no money etc. unusual, original take on a walk down memory Lane but not really my cup of tea.
1. It's been my 'codename' since using it at Girl Scout camp.
2. Play solitaire
3. The last audio book ...I'm currently listening to The Count of Monte Cristo and The House in the Cerulean Sea which I had to get in Hoopla on audio because my ebook on Libby couldn't be renewed.
#WonderousWednesday
@Eggs
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
pickSoft pick. Montale was a poet who also wrote short prose pieces for various newspapers just before and after WWII, most of them lightly fictionalized anecdotes from his own life. This book is a compendium of those newspaper columns, which collectively form a memoir of sorts. I liked the non-linear, piecemeal structure of this, as it seems to mimic what it's like getting to know another person in real life, a series of tiny glimpses that 👇
