Status Updates From La festa del raccolto

I waited all year for harvest season to start this book, and it is BORING. The dude rambles about nothing, it feels exactly like what a 60s newsman sounded like. I KNOW it is a prominent small town horror book, but it is so SLOW i cannot wait around for it to finally start. Almost halfway nothing has actually happened, just the guy refusing to help his wife at the chores. And he is unemployed.