Enjoyed in audio form from Libro.fm! Multiple POV characters experience very different historic moments, but each with a bitter taste of otherness, a strong pull toward a beloved, a connection to parents and grandparents, and a shared intensity of longing which, over several generations, moves through different relationships with poetry. Ambitious, beautifully textured. More thoughts later when I have processed the somewhat fever-dream-like ending.
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An independent bookstore in Iowa City with 40K used/rare/out of print books - and board games, wooden toys, puppets - run by three cats, two adults, and their baby. This feed maintained by @bokvattirsaga aka Nialle Sylvan.
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The Haunted Bookshop started reading The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford
The Haunted Bookshop stopped reading Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an …
I'm giving myself permission not to finish this. It has its charms, but I'm looking for more curious libraries (think Borges in general, or "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern) and more personal growth, historic and social insight (think "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson), and a notch up on the prose (e.g. "Writers and Lovers" by Lily King). Always eager for your recommendations!
The Haunted Bookshop started reading The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier
Reading will be ongoing indefinitely; there are 100 stories, and I revisit them often.