Matthew Bauersfeld > Recent Status Updates

It does not look like Donald Trump on the cover, right??

Actively made my day worse

I do not read plays and I last read Death of a Salesman so I keep thinking this is Death of a Black Salesman.

Yes I believe this will be an excellent read.

This is reading more and more like someone's fantasy of how just they would be to marginalized groups if they had power.

So incredibly slow it is like reading Emma in Space.

Boring as usual but well thought-out social structures!

Too many disasters.

Red wedding knockoff!!

Now I had to go to bed mad because of a dumb book.

This is so much better than the last one: political and intriguing, characters insufferable at least for a reason now.

I like when they kill bad guys.

Only two character perspectives so far but both of them are mostly insufferable. MAYBE we will get a nice critique of political systems in this entry.

I hate Malachy and his drunken Irish songs and tarts in Piccadilly.

No tears in this section.

I keep showing up to work teary-eyed

It is making me think without punctuation

New Hampshire governor is a little too real! Maybe that is good, though, to remind us that are inexperienced that foul leadership has always been so cunning.

ANOTHER little story at least this one was well-written and satisfying, not challenging, in the way a complete story is.

Genuinely had to stop reading because I am scared of what will happen. It is interesting to me that a single section can justify a whole novel.

I have to credit Kingsolver for somehow making Rachel a sympathetic character. Not likable, at all, but sympathetic, somehow.

I would appreciate fewer short stories in my long story.

I can empathize with Rachel and admit she is probably doing the best she can with what she has, or whatever, but that does NOT mean I am not angry with her.

I cannot believe they are swingers.

The ant swarm was well-painted.

While I am sure it should not be the final realization of one's personal journey, I think it is important for us, like Garp, to reckon with the sins of our similars, from the most nuclear to the infinite scope of existence.

Thank my God and the gods of the Congolese for Brother Fowles, because his introduction saved me from a Third Straight Day of glowering my way into my home for the night.

Prostitutes with his mom??

Nathan price is one-dimensionally evil to a point where I cannot tell whether it is a good thing or not. Even Milton's Satan is a more sympathetic character than Mister Reverend Tata Nathan Price.

Garp would be a wrestler and a distance athlete it just makes perfect sense.