70 Books |
My name is Meagan and I love books, whiskey and all of you. This is the place where I chronicle reading 70 books a year. Book suggestion? Email me at meaganld@gmail.com |
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#21: Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
I’ve been a devoted fan of Aimee Bender ever since An Invisible Sign of My Own came out; her writing so wonderfully bizarre and touching. Even though she writes stories about people with pumpkins for heads, or a miniature man living in a bird cage or a man with keys for fingers, they’re still insanely honest and full of emotion. As Alice Sebold said, “Watching her imagination catch fire remains a sustaining joy in my readerly life.” Word, Sebold. Word.
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#43: An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
I’ve just recently begun to read Aimee Bender’s writing after reading her wonderful short story in This Is Not Chick Lit and she brings her talent far beyond that of the short story. It’s a book about compulsions, superstitions, teaching, obsessions…amputees. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Aimee Bender writes uniquely and poetically and deserves much more notoriety than she receives.
I spent the time I should have been reading for a lecture in class tomorrow reading this book, so I must go attend to that whole “college” thing now. Poop.
P.S. Apparently this book is eventually being made into a movie with Jessica “I’m a terrible actress” Alba as the beloved main character, Mona Gray. That’s just insulting to Mona.
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Notes"But regardless, she said, there is something so awful, something so gross about watching someone who loves you struggle to believe what you both know, deep down, is partially a lie."Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own
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Notes"We were silent for a while, and then she said: Mona, out there somewhere is Africa. We looked at the dry ground ahead of us, the stretch of horizon. It seemed impossible. Even water seemed like a crazy idea.
She let out a deep breath. I want, she said, to take a train through Russia and end up in China and walk through Nepal and pet a goat in Italy and climb a pyramid in Egypt. I want to see the next town, she said. I just want, she said, to eat a hamburger from a different family of cows.
I kept staring out at the highway in the distance.
"Aimee Bender, An Invisible Sign of My Own
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Something from nothing
I’ve started reading fiction again after a six-year boycott as an English Lit burnout. Turns out, I didn’t really like four...
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If I can’t feel anything good I’d rather not feel anything at all
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i think i’d rather poke my own eyeballs out and eat them than have to read another gossip girl book ever again. :D
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Seven
The worst book you’ve read in the last year.
I reeeally wasn’t crazy about ‘Shiver’ by Maggie Stiefvater. I don’t...
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As soon as Matt gets out of bed all of his pillows become mine.
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i wonder if i'm even capable of being in a functional relationship?
or am i too scarred?
