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This is great, and even better as an audio book.

Amazing audiobook!!!

This is amazing! (Listening to the audiobook narrated by the author.) 🤩

I had to give up again. Maybe the third time will be the charm, someday? I just couldn’t bear the characters or the family dynamics — too close to home.

Hilarious and awesome

Wish I could add photos! I’d share some of the amazing shading techniques this artist uses to create mood and atmosphere.

This is great. My first time reading Solnit. I enjoy her dreamy yet scientific and historical reveries. Like following some kind of a throughline in a library across different aisles, both nonfiction and fiction.

I’ve read the chapter on mastering basic sauerkraut and am now skipping around, flipping between recipes. What an inspiring book! I can’t wait to try so many of these recipes! It is also just so well-done — easy to read, well-designed, with photos and illustrations, and funny.

Stunning writing!!

Yeahhhhh…. I’m good. A bit melodramatic for my taste.

When it comes to class satire I much prefer Gogol, or Austen. Character development? No question — Dostoyevsky. Not sure if I’m going to continue with this showy classic. I do enjoy the historical descriptions though. We’ll see.

No plot… reads like a journal. And the author doesn’t seem to know what “silence” means. Why am I reading this?

I love Tig but this is just too depressing for me right now. Returning it to the library early.

Excellent so far. On a personal note — this would’ve been triggering as hell only a few years ago. The writer nails the walking-on-eggshells-to-keep-danger-at-bay feeling, and the slow buildup of layers that is domestic violence.

Grace Paley meets Raymond Carver...?

This is truly blowing my mind... Very fun.

I just learned that I am a winner of a Goodreads book giveaway! FINALLY!!!!! I’d been about to give up on these things after years of entering and never winning. The book is Bethany Webster’s ‘The Mother Wound.’ Hurray!!

“Electrifying”...?

“Seven out of ten road rage cases are perpetrated by clowns out of makeup.” 😂

I almost stopped reading this book many times during the first two chapters because some aspects of the protagonist (B.) repulsed/offended me, but instead pushed on, sensing there was more to it than I could appreciate yet... and there is!

Also — for fans of the podcasts Heavyweight and Wiretap, B. is similar to Jonathan Goldstein, so it’s like listening to a very long JG story. I’m enjoying it.

The story "Sonny's Blues" knocked me out. I'm taking a break just to fully absorb that story before continuing to the next.

The more I read, the less I like. Not sure if I should keep going.

Very funny and well narrated as an audiobook. Just what I need right now!