Status Updates From Stoner

the problem with stoner is that it's TOO GOOD - it's become a task 😞
I want to be as alert as possible, able to google if I don't understand, have my markers ready, and my typing fingers near a keyboard to write down quotes

Quotes

Page 25
but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.

Page 26 - farm
he and his parents were becoming strangers; and he felt his love increased by its loss.

Page 27 - teaching
he found that his sense of wonder remained hidden within him

Page 27
when Archer Sloane had spoken to him in class and he had, in an instant, become someone other than who he had been

I’m trying with it. It’s a book that feels like it has it for a few pages then loses it again. I get confused with the premise and then I weave back into it. A strange little book.

What a better way to end the year than by reading a book with my sweetheart Ayman ♥️
If you see me finishing another book after this one, no you didn't

I’m glad for a book club that will force me outside my comfort zone and find a book like this. It’s quiet, and slow, and forced me to just experience it. It won’t pull you along, or into it, and the subtlety of it will make you search for the themes yourself.