9/9
2010
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I love that I’m just seeing this John Water’s quote now, because just in the last few days I have started, and half-finished, and novel with his blurb on the back cover. On my copy of A.M. Homes’ book, This Book Will Save Your Life* {3? 4}, John Waters is quoted to have called it, “a scarily human, kind, and alarming epic of second chances. If Oprah went insane, this might be her favorite book.” I’m not so sure about all that quite yet, but I must find it compelling considering how fast I’m reading. I almost put the book down after the first page. I just couldn’t process her writing style. Maybe I was really tired, or maybe her language wasn’t straight forward enough for me; I just couldn’t get it. Nothing was registering as making any sense. I just decided to move past it and try to connect to the story on the next page. Now, I’m interested to see what happens with all of the characters. This is why I used to love to read. Getting sucked into stories and not being able to put down a book. It might not be the best thing ever written, but it’s an inviting alternative to the rest of the bullshit I could be doing.
*It is ridiculous that I can’t underline in with this Tumblr layout. Who would design something to be like that?
