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A campus-based soap opera exposes some profound truth and beauty. Generally a recipe for success. I sort of wanted to know more about the character of David:
"... the kind of man who wilted around men but bloomed when dealing with women--supremely heterosexual, indifferent to or disdainful or or afraid of other men, but also supremely attuned to women's needs and interests."
Anyway, apt descriptions all around. Nice writing. Nice being an understatement, but I'm not feeling creative.
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"... the kind of man who wilted around men but bloomed when dealing with women--supremely heterosexual, indifferent to or disdainful or or afraid of other men, but also supremely attuned to women's needs and interests."
Anyway, apt descriptions all around. Nice writing. Nice being an understatement, but I'm not feeling creative.
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One of my favorite books of the year. I finished this in a weekend - the narrative is exceptionally compelling and the author accomplishes the impossible: making writing about baseball interesting.
This was a really good read. It was like some sort of mix between Infinite Jest, The Rules of Attraction, and one of those baseball books I used to read in grade school (that I suddenly can't remember the name of - it was like the Hardy Boys for baseball).
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When I read this, my breath caught in my throat for a second
"Such consistency suggested, or seemed to suggest, that Owen found their afternoons worth repeating, even down to the smallest detail. This was the dreamy, paradisaical side of domestic ritual: when all the days were possessed of the same minutiae precisely because you wanted them to be."
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"Such consistency suggested, or seemed to suggest, that Owen found their afternoons worth repeating, even down to the smallest detail. This was the dreamy, paradisaical side of domestic ritual: when all the days were possessed of the same minutiae precisely because you wanted them to be."
I'm really sad this book is over. ...more
Read concurrently with 'The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,' also set in WI. This one was much happier, a fizzy delight of a novel.
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