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I have a love / hate relationship with Cunningham. More hate, his latest. The writing is exhaustingly brilliant, read out loud, incantory. But I had zero emotional connection with the characters. There is actually little physical intimacy, rawness, randomness in this carefully curated, highly accurate, yet emotionally distant, aloof account of a family riven by Covid-19. I also felt the callout to 'The Hours' was gratuitous and deflected from the aim of this novel, a heartfelt paean to being alive post Covid.
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Reading Progress
July 29, 2023
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(Kindle Edition)
July 29, 2023
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to-read
(Kindle Edition)
June 1, 2024
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June 1, 2024
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June 1, 2024
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13.0%
"Dan wears gray sweatpants and an ancient Ramones T-shirt. A circle of unconcealed scalp offers itself from the back of his platinum head—peroxide is his only remaining insistence on his former life. Who could blame him for wanting to retain a vestige of his youthful magnificence? How does anyone recover from having looked, at age twenty, like a seraph out of Botticelli?"
June 1, 2024
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21.0%
"It can seem sometimes that the true end of civilization is starting not at the top, not among deluded politicians and corporate lords, not among polluters and terrorists, but at the bottom, among those who care for children, the people who can’t be sure that the walls have been checked for toxicity or that no one will walk into a classroom in homemade camouflage and a Halloween mask, carrying a semiautomatic."
June 4, 2024
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31.0%
"... a man wearing a bow tie, reading The Golden Bowl with ostentatious dignity, like the shade of a professor doomed to ride the 4 train, reading late James, until God decrees that he’s finally arrived at his stop."
June 6, 2024
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40.0%
"Dan is right—it’s time to get back on the horse. Or, maybe more accurately, it’s time to find a horse he can imagine riding all the way to the horizon, and beyond."
June 12, 2024
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55.0%
"It’s that old ditty about Frosted Flakes and it’s an anthem to the perfume your mother wore when you were a child. It’s a hymn sung by girls with candles in paper cups, it’s the cry of the rabbit when your father slit its throat, it’s the sound of your wife whispering in a dream that’s not about you."
June 13, 2024
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64.0%
"...the cracking open of a glory that defies description but, when it reveals itself, may not be the cherubim and seraphim of the official glory Isabel was asked to aspire to as a girl, the painted clouds and winged children on the walls of Our Lady of Fatima. This is glory of another sort, a depthless luminous darkness or the wheel of a galaxy or a fire that cleanses as it burns everything away."
June 14, 2024
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70.0%
"Most mothers think their children are amazing and singular people. Most mothers are wrong about that. How many amazing, singular people do you know, whatever their mothers think of them?"
June 14, 2024
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76.0%
"Anyway the sky when it sings in daytime is more like a Gregorian chant than anything else, though that’s not exactly right. It’s some sort of musical rumble, it’s deep and I want to say sonorous but that’s not quite right either. It’s reverent in its way but not supplicant, it’s sort of like God singing to herself � �"
June 14, 2024
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82.0%
"Their wings are longer and scalier than those of supermarket chickens, which, as everybody knows, are mutated in ways you’d rather not think about, even the “organic� ones."
June 14, 2024
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88.0%
"“We’re boats borne into the past. Fitzgerald.�
“I know it’s Fitzgerald. The line is ‘borne back ceaselessly into the past.� Something like that.� “Something like that.�"
“I know it’s Fitzgerald. The line is ‘borne back ceaselessly into the past.� Something like that.� “Something like that.�"
June 14, 2024
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92.0%
"You ask your college friend for a teaspoonful of his essence, thinking, We can live compassionately in a future we devise for ourselves."
June 14, 2024
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Finished Reading
June 15, 2024
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2024
June 15, 2024
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gay-interest
June 15, 2024
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literary-fiction
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I agree.
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Which callout to The Hours? I may have missed it.
