Status Updates From The Dark by John McGahern (...

Dawg lms what william is on

While he isn't a kind and particularly generous man, Moran certainly feels true to life. Some guys are like that in their homes. Very solid writing. The kind I like where not a ton of plot really has to happen. Just great descriptions of characters and their interactions. McGahern is very readable. Believe a clip of the actor Cillian Murphy recommending him got me to check it out.

Self-reflection maxing

He stopped stubbornly before the door.

‘I never knew how hard it is to die,’ he said simply.

'Life is a peculiar venture,' he was fond of saying. 'You never know how low or high you'll go. No matter how you rise in the world never look down on another. That way you can never go far wrong'

It was like grasping water to think how quickly the years had passed here.

They were nearly gone.

It was in the nature of things and yet it brought a sense of betrayal and anger,

of never having understood anything much.