What a perfect book for today. Yup, that's right, I started and finished this book today. My friend Jeffrey gave me this book, along with a bunch of others. It's actually a collection of short stories rather than a novel. The weather today: kinda cool, a breeze, mostly cloudy although some periods of sun, and the occasional light drizzle. The perfect day to brew a pot of coffee, curl up, put on some good jazz and just bliss out and read. As it turned out, this was the next book in the pile.
A collection of stories: not my usual thing, but it was good. All about a character - usually the main one, but not always - who is gay. Different ages, perspectives, time periods. And occasionally I'd realize that a peripheral character in one story was also in a different story, which was kind of cool. But then other stories had no connections whatsoever.
He has an interesting writing style - some of the stories were told almost like a news report or something, with one story where the narrator provided the exact date and time that he saw this other guy. It was different but I liked it.
I didn't sit and read the book non-stop; I took a few breaks, watched some tv, went for a walk, that kind of thing. I had Melody Gardot on in the background for a lot of it (www.melodygardot.com, go check her out, she's great) and they went well together.
A perfect read for a peaceful day for me. Also, a great follow-up to that boring French book. Like a breath of fresh air, while a nice cool breeze was coming in. Aaahh.
Now I know what you did yesterday, God bless blogs.
ReplyDeleteI recently read a series of short stories by some well-known author of whom I can remember at this point for the neighborhood book club. I didn't find a thread of anything that connected, but the english lit major now older woman with a kindle found the thread throughout it all...amazing and cool but I didn't reread it (her recommendation) to see it all for myself cause, well, I got some Sookie to read. What a glorious day for you yesterday...bless!