#WeeklyForecast 34/24
I am reading the fun The Husbands, a #CampToB contender. I am in the middle of The Warehouse too, which is a good dystopian, based on a near-future Amazon kind of company 😱
Catching up on the #Booker longlist with the tagged book, once I finish one of my current reads.
#CampToB was very kind to indulge my rather extensive discussion questions for the second half of All Fours. You can check out the conversation here: https://www.tournamentofbooks.com/camp-tob-2024/week-10-all-fours
The first half (through Part 1) discussion of All Fours is up on the #CampToB website! https://www.tournamentofbooks.com/camp-tob-2024/week-nine-all-fours
Seeing the discussion here really helped me craft my questions (awesome leading, @Megabooks !). If you're interested in seeing my questions or jumping into the conversation, check out the link!
Day 3 of fever and fatigue and all the other fun stuff, and I need a change of pace. Which of these would be most likely to grab my wandering attention and divert me enough to forget both the nagging worry that I won't be able to come up with questions for the tagged for #CampToB by August 7 and that I won't be well enough to start teaching my class this coming Monday? Or maybe I should just binge-watch The Simpsons?
I might‘ve gone a bit crazy with the book buying recently! Of course, I got Bear for #CampLitsy24🏕️ plus 2 other #botm AND 2 from #aardvark.
The remainder are from Amazon. Long Island was a preorder, but most others were from the 3 for the price of 2 deal. I‘ve almost finished Martyr!, which #CampToB is discussing right now. It‘s a #LikeNotLove for me. I‘m reading Jackpot Summer, too, and it‘s cute and light. 🏖️
pickCyrus is born in Iran but after his mother dies in a plane crash he and his father move to the US.
He beats alcoholism but life in sobriety still is challenging. Until he comes up with the idea to write a book about martyrdom. That changes everything.
The style reminded me a bit of Rushdie and I grew really fond of Cyrus. #CampToB
#WeeklyForecast 28/24
I am starting The Alternatives for #CampLitsy24 because I‘ve got a borrowed copy. Thirst for Salt is a gift by Cindy and seems totally in my wheelhouse. Martyr! is a #CampToB book and has had such raving reviews on Litsy that I had to add it to my TBR.
pickThis is a complicated pick for me. I really enjoyed Part 1 and Part 2, I liked Part 3 a lot (except the last paragraph...major eye roll), and I pretty much hated Part 4. I love what July has to say about aging in a female body, about the challenges of intimacy and breaking out of ingrained patterns of behavior that separate us, about trauma and how poorly our culture deals with it. The things I disliked are more specific and spoilery. #CampLitsy24
pan“Lony feels worse because he doesn‘t even care about being Native or Indian and would rather just have a normal life and not have to always feel so heavy, have to carry more than it feels like he should have to carry.”
And heavy it is, this prequel/sequel to There There. Tommy Orange dedicates his second book to ‘everyone surviving and not surviving this thing called and not called addiction‘. ⬇️⬇️ #camptob
