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Stan CareyThe thingliness of Lorrie Moore's words. On the blog: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/the-thingliness-of-lorrie-moores-words/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/the-thingliness-of-lorrie-moores-words/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#blog</a>

Stan Carey"Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#reading</a>

Stan Carey" 'Thanks, maybe later?' I said with the question mark our generation believed meant politeness but which baffled our parents." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/politeness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#politeness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#speech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#communication</a>

Stan Carey"I was working on a laugh that was more than my usual pleased grunt, but all I had right now was a kind of blast that culminated in a bleat." —Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/laughs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#laughs</a>

Stan Carey"Her features had fallen but I saw her lift them again, one by one, the way one lifts light porch furniture after a wind."—Lorrie Moore, "A Gate at the Stairs". Every page has such treats<a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/metaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#metaphor</a>

Jorge González BelmarJust finished reading <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Anagrams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anagrams</a> by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LorrieMoore</a>. It's a pretty strange book, and I'll have to think about it (especially the first section) to give a better review. But I liked how she played with perspective, what is real and what is not, as well as what strikes me as a commentary on the loneliness of (then) modern living. Sadly, as I got a Spanish <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translation</a>, it seem some humor was lost, and some had to be footnoted to make sense. "Lost in translation" and all that.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Jorge González BelmarSo, having finished a book 3 days ago, now I finished another one 😅 ... "Easy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Prey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prey</a>" (2000), by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnSandford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnSandford</a>. Probably the most fun I've had so far with the series and liked that it was a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a> where we don't know <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whodunnit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whodunnit</a>, as opposed to the others I've read in the series. The humor was also on point for this one, and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LucasDavenport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LucasDavenport</a> got some character development.Now the question is: do I follow that with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LorrieMoore</a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnUpdike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnUpdike</a>?<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a>

Anthony RappWho are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> Some of mine: <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/UrsulaKLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrsulaKLeGuin</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NKJemisin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NKJemisin</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/CJCherryh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CJCherryh</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/JohnSteinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JohnSteinbeck</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/LorrieMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LorrieMoore</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/KimStanleyRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KimStanleyRobinson</a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/RobinHobb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobinHobb</a>

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