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“Anger feels so much better than sadness.
Cleaner, somehow, and more definite.
But then when the anger fades, the sadness
comes right back again the same as ever.”
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I don’t often talk about what I’ve been reading here on ye olde blog. Maybe I’ll do more of that, maybe not. But I’ve been wrongly erased on Facebook — an outrageous story I’ll document one day soon — I ran afoul of the robots, somehow, despite doing nothing wrong — and that’s where I’d often talk about movies I loved, books I loved, music I loved, etc., along with publishing news from the relentless self-promotion machinery.
This Anne Tyler book reminds me of Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy By the Sea, another one I loved. Some similar themes and writing style, closely observed realistic fiction from an older woman’s POV.
This one is only 165 pages! Gosh, I love a short book. I read it in a day and thoroughly enjoyed every page. Tyler is one heck of a writer. But you knew that, didn’t you?
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