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Finished reading this book on my porch on an unexpectedly warm day. Written in 2001, it‘s the story behind the movie American Fiction. It‘s wonderful that Everett is being read now. I haven‘t seen the movie and had a very different idea of what the story would be. Not only does it address racism, it deals with family traumas, a family member with dementia, death, and money. It has Everett‘s humor and very sharp insights throughout.

I can't explain how much I am liking this book........

When he gave to charity, his left hand never knew what his right hand was doing. He
never once took the name of the Lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted
his neighbor's ass. In fact, he loved his neighbor and never even bore false witness
against him. Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant
nonconformist.

page 89

I'm getting closer to understanding the hype. After three less successful Vonnegut's this was my next at-random pick, and I think I lucked I to one where the ratio of very obvious social commentary was higher than the amount of entertaining? nonsense and sporadically suggestive bits. I tend to enjoy when author's play with words, even make up their own, but I think Vonnegut can get a little caught up in it, to the detriment of storytelling. 1/?

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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence.

I took pictures last night of my #FFFS gift, but then started watching the debate and completely forgot to post! I am so sorry!! What a delightful package to open; beautiful leaves and adorable paper! You must have been sleuthing! I loved James by Percival Everett and I‘ve been so eager to read Erasure since I watched American Fiction! Thank you so much! And all of the sweet additions! Just lovely!!
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Hi,

I'm making a tentative return, slowly getting better. Thank you for all your lovely well wishes.
I'll catch up with all tags and posts over the week. I've just posted the October #buddyreads for #NaturaLitsy and #VirginiaBloomsberries
I will post the discussion threads for both September 's reads over the weekend.
I'm looking forward to catching up.

An ex-salesman comes up with a creative solution for dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace. The juxtaposition of using such banal business/self-improvement jargon to describe such an outlandish idea really worked for me. DeWitt is a funny writer and great at conveying the gap between how people see themselves and how they actually think and behave.