#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

“Some things you'll do for money, and some you'll do for fun, but the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.” —John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats

#music #quotes #lyrics #quoteOfTheDay #songLyrics #TheMountainGoats #JohnDarnielle

we’ve been on vacation for the past week, the last bit at a tiny lake house in rural Ohio: hammock, shady tree, nothing else to do but read.

My 2023 reading goal is 10,000 pages and I plowed through a 1,000 of them in the past week, Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead a significant chunk of that.

it was really fucking good. Over 600 pages, she builds a voice for her character, and stays true to it without once veering into cliche.

Even though, the Mountain Goats fan I am, I kept spotting themes and stories that he explores in his lyrics: Fall of the High School Running Back, the Alpha Couple songs, really all Tallahassee.

so yeah, I fucking loved it. and most importantly, it’s given me a newly found sympathy and hope for the people we coastal elites are told to sneer at and hate.

#bookstodon #currentlyreading #demoncopperhead #barbarakingsolver #themountaingoats #tmg #johndarnielle

Wishing a very happy birthday to John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats!

#themountaingoats #johndarnielle #tradingcards #cardart

Inside you is a wolf. You are a white van.

#MemeABookRecommendation #JohnDarnielle #bookstodon

Inside you is a wolf. You are a white van.

#MemeABookRecommendation #JohnDarnielle #bookstodon

Mastodon lists seem to be in 7s, so my top 7 books of 2022 are:

#PatrickMcCabe - Poguemahone
#OlgaTokarczuk - The Books of Jacob (translation)
#JohnElizabethStintzi - My Volcano
#JohnDarnielle - Devil House
#RodrigoFresán - The Remembered Part (translation)
#MiekoKawakami - All the Lovers in the Night (translation)
#ReneeGladman - Plans for Sentences

#bookstodon @bookstodon

Is it just me, or does anyone else start listening to #TheMountainGoats (particularly "This Year") when December comes around?

Listening to a Google-generated #indieMusic mix right now of #JohnDarnielle, #NeutralMilkHotel, and #TheDevemberists/#ColinMeloy. Feeling those #DecemberVibes. 🌬️🏔️🌲

Really enjoying Devil House by #johndarnielle . I can honestly say that the man's musical and literary talents draw me in completely. He creates a scene so completely, and I lose myself in his works.

On the musical front, the #mountaingoats Bleed Out has been an absolute joy to listen to. Maybe I should combine the two?