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April Fiction

I’m still so early in the book that I don’t have a solid grasp on it, so it’s possible I’ll hear a few minutes more tomorrow and realize this was a ridiculous thought, but is this being narrated by the dog? If so, that is not what I had anticipated.

there’s so many good quotes in here I wish I could remember them all

~beware irony, ignore criticism, look to what is simple, study the small and humble things of the world, do what is difficult precisely because it is difficult… do not run away from sadness or depression for these might be the very conditions necessary to your work~

a very sad book, yet funny. exacting in its descriptions

Audiobook. I barely got started with it, just listened on the way back from dropping Odo off this morning. Not even 10 minutes in.

picked this up in a little free library the other day and i was immersed immediately? love me some free flowing prose. tell me about grief with a humorous edge. make the characters real!! they're people and they got some demons but we can offer some grace because aren't we all little lovely complex creatures of shame and guilt and rage and beauty and love and hope?