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The Quick and Pithy of MY READING MIND…
Saturday, by Ian McEwan
If you’d ever thought to “record” an entire day, there would be a surprise over how much you thought about, observed, considered and accepted/rejected, spoke to people (and how, and of which topics), day-dreamed, detailed every incident you saw (or thought you saw), with whom you had contact and/or encountered … well, the list could continue. Never would it be exhausted, because something would have been missed.
This is SATURDAY, McEwan’s tip-of-the-hat to one particularly observant (though hardly decisive) Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon who awakes at 4:30am on his day off. And quite a day this is to become:
The run-up to the US invasion of Iraq makes its appearance.
His son, a blues guitarist; his daughter, a newly published poet.
His wife, a corporate lawyer.
His mother, not all there anymore.
His father-in-law, there’and’then’some.
And then something actually happens. That’s when this carnival ride rolls over the edge, and away you go.
-- Mark Beyer
author of What Beauty and Max, the blind guy, and The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America. To sample and buy: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
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If you’d ever thought to “record” an entire day, there would be a surprise over how much you thought about, observed, considered and accepted/rejected, spoke to people (and how, and of which topics), day-dreamed, detailed every incident you saw (or thought you saw), with whom you had contact and/or encountered … well, the list could continue. Never would it be exhausted, because something would have been missed.
This is SATURDAY, McEwan’s tip-of-the-hat to one particularly observant (though hardly decisive) Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon who awakes at 4:30am on his day off. And quite a day this is to become:
The run-up to the US invasion of Iraq makes its appearance.
His son, a blues guitarist; his daughter, a newly published poet.
His wife, a corporate lawyer.
His mother, not all there anymore.
His father-in-law, there’and’then’some.
And then something actually happens. That’s when this carnival ride rolls over the edge, and away you go.
-- Mark Beyer
author of What Beauty and Max, the blind guy, and The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America. To sample and buy: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
#ReadersWanted #GoodRead #bookworm #booklover #ianmcewan #Saturday #bookclubs #library #booktofilm
The Fortress of Solitude by J. Lethem
The Quick and Pithy of MY READING MIND…
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
This story is not about “the losers” – although plenty of them have secondary parts, and lots of walk-ons. We know those types. They fade into the background. Likely as well to bitch about how they’d never been given a chance. Losers.
Dylan Ebdus understands life differently. While having had to negotiate the micro-society of his childhood street (and, later, neighborhood) with rather poor results, he’s tattooed with the knowledge that one needs to learn something in order to make a life.
A Brooklyn landscape; a single street in Boerum Hill. That is: long before “fashionable neighborhood” was attached to this slice of low-rise cityscape. The set-up of black-white-brown friendship and its opposite. The aura of the place is enough to keep it full for any reader.
-- Mark Beyer
author of “Max, the blind guy” and three other novels
Read samples on Amazon: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
Google Books: http://rb.gy/r89nk7
Kobo Books: http://rb.gy/cecwhw
Apple Books: http://rb.gy/6t87tl
#Readers #GoodRead #bookworm #goodbooks #booklover #novels #Lethem #FortressOfSolitude
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
This story is not about “the losers” – although plenty of them have secondary parts, and lots of walk-ons. We know those types. They fade into the background. Likely as well to bitch about how they’d never been given a chance. Losers.
Dylan Ebdus understands life differently. While having had to negotiate the micro-society of his childhood street (and, later, neighborhood) with rather poor results, he’s tattooed with the knowledge that one needs to learn something in order to make a life.
A Brooklyn landscape; a single street in Boerum Hill. That is: long before “fashionable neighborhood” was attached to this slice of low-rise cityscape. The set-up of black-white-brown friendship and its opposite. The aura of the place is enough to keep it full for any reader.
-- Mark Beyer
author of “Max, the blind guy” and three other novels
Read samples on Amazon: https://rb.gy/poyrsd
Google Books: http://rb.gy/r89nk7
Kobo Books: http://rb.gy/cecwhw
Apple Books: http://rb.gy/6t87tl
#Readers #GoodRead #bookworm #goodbooks #booklover #novels #Lethem #FortressOfSolitude
#libraries #literature #googlebooks #kobobooks #applebooks #kindle
Quest! ... characters
QUEST! is coming out at the end of this month. It's a novel with 12 main characters. I had a way to keep them separate as I began to develop the story, which was to sketch thumbnails of how I saw them according to who they were and what they represented. This is the year 1911 ... and here they are:
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