Good Stargazer, I will look for your review. I was quite taken with the author’s sensibilities as a writer and I will look for whatever she puts out next. I love the whole murkiness of the story.

I read your review of Our Wives Under the Sea. Yeah, it sounds like we agree, although I was invested already quite early in the novel. My review should go up shortly.

Hey Carmen, so sorry about your comments being eaten. That’s terrible. I have no idea if it’s a new problem or if the site is falling apart or what. Ugh. I’m not technically inclined but if it continues I will have it looked into. I do hate when that happens. I have had that on other sites.
Try not to put too much pressure on yourself about the books. Go with whatever you are enjoying. It sounds like Spare has a lot in it. The Sarah Polley book is a bit eye-opening. More of it is about her personal life but she does talk of her severe stage fright doing theater and excoriates director Terry Gilliam for his unsafe sets for children on the movie The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which I hadn’t heard of). I think you’d like the Polley book. It felt fast too. I still need to see her latest Women Talking. We recently watched Armageddon Time and I’m quite surprised it was snubbed out of Oscar nominations. It is worth watching and the child actor is very good and screenplay. The title of the movie seems not good to me for what it is. Hope all is well there. Enjoy the week. thanks for persevering with the comments – as I always love hearing your perspective on books & films. & life. 🙂

I think I told you I was juggling Victory City and Spare, but after a few days I have started concentrating solely on Spare since I was reading it at a faster pace than the other. Since I was liking Victory City, I’ll go back to it. On the 14th I was feeling kind of down reading-wise, so I’m happy to report that it has improved substantially. Let’s see if I’m able to get to the pace I was keeping last year before my concentration tanked. 😮

Hi Stargazer. I hadn’t heard much of Nightbitch before I picked it up. I got it b/c a bookstore had their book club doing a discussion of it – which I wanted to go to but then I didn’t finish the book in time, argh! It was good though. I agree with you about Our Wives Under the Sea – it was quite absorbing. I listened to the audio of it in November & thought it really picked up towards the end. Weird & good, & visual. My review is here: https://www.thecuecard.com/books/blowing-steam/ Look forward to your thoughts on it as well. You make a good point about characters in books being too much all the same. Enjoy the week.

Ha Kathy I know. Some of the stream-of-consciousness writing is mystifying. I do find Woolf’s novels hard as well as Faulkner’s. I think I’ve only read 1 of Woolf’s (Mrs. Dalloway) and 2 of Faulkner’s (Light in August & The Sound & the Fury). Not sure if I’ll try any more.
I’m listening to another South Florida disaster novel now called The Displacements. Gosh. I don’t mean to be experiencing these right in a row. Poor Florida! thx for stopping by.

Nightbitch has been recommended a lot on Booktube. Don’t know if it’s for me, but your review has intrigued me. I just finished a really amazing book, Our Wives Under the Sea. An unusual read, but strangely mesmerising.

What bothers me in novels is stream of consciousness writing that in some cases can become hard to follow. I read To The Lighthouse for example by Virginia Woolf which was a bit of a struggle to get through although I loved A Room of One’s Own. And then there was The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner. What was going on there I have no clue.

Ha. thanks Deb. We are liking it out here and are looking forward to spring & summer when we can enjoy it more. 38 years is a long time – I think you’re in the right spot … with all the Gulf Coast beauty. Two years ago we moved my parents from their home of 50+ years – that was tough. I credit my sister for all the work.
These books were all pretty good. I like when that happens. Enjoy your week!

Hi Judee — I can relate – some books have too small print to see adequately. I find reading on the e-reader is a bit easier on the eyes. I hope you find the right glasses. The Nightbitch was my favorite of these. Have a great week.