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

the number of character deaths in this book has more than doubled in the past fifteen pages. not including all of the 'this person said this thing about this event before dying in a meat freezer' incidents as that would put the death count of tom's crossing comfortably in the hundreds. bloody hell.

too many terrible moments in this book for me to know where to begin talking about them. utter devastation, mixed in with some damn good social commentary integrated perfectly into the narrative

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

starting to regret not taking notes now. there are some beautiful passages in this book, and i admire mark danielewski as a writer, but the only quote i could actually locate is the orpheus one on page 309. alas.

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