Cannonball Read 18

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Worst Books of the Year

My Year of Rest & Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh

All Fours by Miranda July

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One DNF, and one left in an airport in Liverpool, UK, these were books that simply did not land for me.  I actually felt like All Fours’ narrator could have been the grown up version of the narrator from My Year of Rest & Relaxation – their dissatisfaction and ennui felt like the same flavour, to me. It might be slightly ironic that in my own perimenopause, I lack the patience to connect with The Perimenopause Book.  All Fours has its moments – there is […]

“Having a trash chute was one of my favorite things about my building. It made me feel important, like I was participating in the world. My trash mixed with the trash of others. The things I touched touched things other people had touched. I was contributing, I was connecting.”

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation was on a bunch of “Best of” lists at the end of 2018, and there was something about the cover that drew me to it. And now that I’ve finished it, while I’m glad I read it to see what the fuss was all about, I honestly have no idea if I liked it or hated it. I think both. But mostly hated it. We have an unnamed narrator living in Manhattan in 1999-2000. She’s in her 20s, has […]

The 2nd Book in a Row for Me That Just Feels Overwhelmingly Lonely

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This is a tough one… the characterization of the protagonist in this novel is absolutely fascinating, yet I don’t know that the book as a whole worked for me. Such a specific tone was slowly developed throughout the first 2/3 of the story, easing along gentle to the inevitable conclusion, which then came about so quickly that I felt like there had to be more. Eileen is named after it’s protagonist, Eileen, as she recounts the story of how she disappeared from her small hometown […]



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