Yard sale mini #Bookhaul 📚👏😁
dabbe Ya got some chunksters, there, m'dear! 🤩🤩🤩 2mo
Leftcoastzen @dabbe indeed!😁 2mo
TrishB Good chunksters though 👍🏻 2mo
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pickSad events of a misguided youth in urban Detroit around 1960. Alex lives with his alcoholic dad who works 2nd shift at a car factory. I enjoyed the ups and downs of the book, cheering for Alex, hoping he would make it through his hardships to lead a good life. He is a complex character with a complicated history. The story takes place over the course of about a school year, but has many flashbacks giving the characters tangible depth.
But anyhow: what can a decent man speak about with most pleasure?
Answer: about himself.
I‘m not sure whether I‘ve drifted away from A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT or I‘m just taking a break. Either way, I‘ve switched to SATELLITE LOVE. It‘s weird and quiet and beautiful, and I regret nothing.
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation...
...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts
I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 201.
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pickVery philosophical and thought-provoking. I enjoyed the second part more.
