lucas’s Reviews > Tom's Crossing > Status Update

overall pretty upsetting local election results today, but my division went green (: and reform didnt get enough seats for a majority. mostly and ironically thanks to rupert lowe

it may or may not have taken me almost nine hundred pages to realise that orvop is an anagram of provo. in my defence i dont tend to think about utah and did not make the connection until i saw provo mentioned on mark z danielewksi's wikipedia page. the more you know

halfway through at last. this book is so very dense

picked up a beautiful hardback of thomas mann's collected short stories from an antique shop today (: and also got a miniature workout when my niece and nephew insisted i chase them around the garden for twenty minutes. still crawling through this book but the activities taking up much of my time are worthwhile

the rage old porch and his sons inspire in me is too great for a goodreads update. egan porch when i get you

going on holiday tomorrow and plan to make the most of the five+ hours in the car to make a proper dent in this book. all these work events have left me lucky to read twenty pages a day, and that is not the way to read a book like this. at least it is slowing down a bit in may. only thing of note is they want to get me on a wind turbine

i keep forgetting most of these characters are mormon. they're even worse at following their religion than those disney+ tiktok mormon housewives were. at least none of them drunkenly killed one of their children and then pinned the blame on a random kid. as far as im aware, anyway. i didnt let my friends force me to sit through the entire first series

decided to go to the book hive and buy a book today, despite having a thousand pages left of this and several unread books on my shelf, and the world got me back for it with a norwich labubu jumpscare. the soulless eyes of a giant labubu are more haunting than words can say

been sentenced to our sinister capital for work today and managed to get some reading in on the train, but a book this size does not make for easy commute reading. absolute brick of a hardback

barely read last week, thanks to work, and have a similarly busy week ahead, but i am enjoying this. western is not my genre (i attempted blood meridian twice, could not get into mccarthy's writing style and it was just a bit dull), and the writing here has taken some getting used to, but there is a reason i put my trust in mark danielewski. he is a talented storyteller