Sign in with Facebook
Tom Trondson’s Followers (8)
550 books
|
223 friends
31,321 books
|
1,457 friends
912 books
|
68 friends
719 books
|
92 friends
110 books
|
106 friends
0 books
|
14 friends
1 book
|
111 friends
14,243 books
|
126 friends
More friends…
Tom Trondson
Goodreads Author
Born
in Minneapolis, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
November 2015
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/tomtrondson
|
Moving in Stereo
—
published
2020
—
3 editions
|
|
|
Sport & Leisure
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Tom Trondson hasn't written any blog posts yet.
Tom’s Recent Updates
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book liked it
|
|
| Wry observant Amis storytelling as usual, this one about Charles Highway, a nineteen year old smarty pants trying to get into Oxford and a girl’s heart at the same time. Problems at home—including a distant, philandering dad—is what keeps the story f ...more | |
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| Hall tackles her childhood in rural Vermont. She doesn’t hold back. Sex, illness, trailer parks, finding her way out and also understanding the place she grew up defines her. Recommend. | |
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| Swashbuckling, high seas adventure with a dash of gallows humor, sex, violence; a coming of age story. Strange, but I thought of Voltaire when I read it. Inventive language and turns of plot. Recommend. | |
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| A memoir about Karr’s early childhood thru teenage years growing up in small town Texas. The first half of the book is seeped in language and place. It’s funny and sad. The stories lose steam for me as the book comes to an end. Still, engrossing fres ...more | |
|
Tom Trondson
is currently reading
|
|
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| A memoir about Karr’s early childhood thru teenage years growing up in small town Texas. The first half of the book is seeped in language and place. It’s funny and sad. The stories lose steam for me as the book comes to an end. Still, engrossing fres ...more | |
|
Tom Trondson
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I first read AHWOSG when it was published in 1997. The story, about the aftermath of Eggers' parents death while in his twenties, and the subsequent raising his little brother in San Francisco, is laugh out funny, poignant, angry, introspective, ever ...more | |
|
Tom Trondson
is currently reading
|
|
|
Tom Trondson
made a comment on
Music for Torching: A Darkly Comic Literary Satire of Suburban Family Dysfunction in America
—
ending
"
What an eerie fantastic sad novel. I read it ten years ago and still remember how pathetic the parents were. I loved the ending, in that it was left u
...more
"
|
|
|
Tom Trondson
is now following
|
|
“...swollen and perfectly round, and large, radiating knives of light...It hung and trembled slightly like a viscous drop about to fall.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“We are all terrified, John. There is no mystery to it. If you weren't terrified, there would be something wrong with you...I'll tell you what matters. How you hold yourself is what fucken matters.”
― Beatlebone
― Beatlebone
Booktok 📚
— 216818 members
— last activity 30 minutes ago
A place for booktokers to interact with each other and share the love
