Agreed. I feel like it started a bunch of story threads but never really paid off in any of them and got kinda bogged down with other things. Yep, Greg's ending had me like huh?! I don't necessarily hate it but was just kinda thrown off. I'm thinking a 2nd read or listening to audiobook version should help clarify things now that I know. As for the Hazel/Alex ending, you nailed it. I think that ending really didn't go with the rest of the book and was for a different audience than the rest if that makes sense. But definitely an enjoyable read for sure.
So I donated about 250 books this weekend. They were all previously read and as much as I liked some / most of them, I knew I would never go back and re-read them. And as much as I love my “wall of books” it just doesn’t make sense to me to keep it anymore. Essentially it’s just for show since I won’t go back to them so might as well let someone else find the books for cheap and enjoy them. Although now my existential first world problem is, why keep any the books I’ve read? I adore DeLillo and most of Franzen (for example) but am I ever gonna take the time to re-read White Noise or The Corrections? Probably not. So I’m like, why keep these? Clearly I don’t have a lot going on in my life if this is my biggest conundrum.
I’m moving into a place in life where I’m keeping less and less books. I’m using my local library a lot more so I don’t spend that much on books anymore.
I finally finished The Wangs vs the World today. It was good - the end was a bit abrupt? Felt it could've used another chapter. And I didn't like some of the way it was written - it got a bit unnecessarily crass and unnecessarily poetic at times, in my opinion. It did best when it was just straightforward, without trying to make too much of itself. But honestly? Almost all the characters started out somewhat unlikable or very unlikable, and by the end, I loved them all. That was really powerful to me.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is on sale for today only on Kindle. Highly recommend this if you've never read. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TWIVNA/?tag=absolutepunk-20
Anyone read The Nix by Nathan Hill or The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne? Picked both of them up today on a Kindle sale.
picked up Swann’s Way the other day lol we’ll see if i make it also got The Ghost Writer. i’ve never readRoth before so i’m interested to see if i dig it
Latest read was Star Wars: Thrawn. Currently reading Breaking Bad: A Cultural History by Lara C. Stache. I keep telling myself that this is the last library book I'll check out for a while so I can make it through like the 264834873982 books on my shelves.
This is me endlessly. Told my wife a few weeks ago, after I finish the few books I had checked out I was gonna start reading books from home..... *Puts multiple books on order at library*
Haha right? It doesn’t help when my local library also has a book store and I just keep buying more books for like $1.50 or less.
When I was a kid, I read this book called The View from Saturday, by E. L. Konigsburg. A few months ago, it crossed my mind and I wanted to read it again, plus I thought it might be a cute and short story to read aloud to my family. It's only 160 pages, so I started and finished it this weekend. I loved reading it again - it's a charming little story - but I don't think it's right to read aloud. The syntax is a bit weird, and nothing much happens, so I don't think my family would enjoy it. Still, I'm really glad I read it again.
she's really good at the nothing much is happening but here's a lot of introspection vibe. I miss her books
This is the only one I ever read for some reason! Maybe it's just what we had in the school library. It's a cute and sweet story.
it's good, gives me Salinger vibes even though it is ostensibly a children's novel. I remember when I realized how old the book is too it's surprising bc there's very little in the novel to date it
I'm always surprised by differences in books written in the 70's-90's alot of times will age well because they don't have things like this that me them time/era/society specific but nowadays that's all you see with authors talking about social media and such in books. It's kinda wild to me and something I've realized recently