(joke stolen from #LorrieMoore)

Honest and insightful woman. How right she is.

“Lorrie Moore is not convinced grappling with personal pain through fiction is effective. ‘Writing doesn’t really work as catharsis for most people, I don’t think,’ she says. ‘So you might as well choose art.’”

(From today’s New York Times)

#LorrieMoore

Honest and insightful woman. How right she is.

“Lorrie Moore is not convinced grappling with personal pain through fiction is effective. ‘Writing doesn’t really work as catharsis for most people, I don’t think,’ she says. ‘So you might as well choose art.’”

(From today’s New York Times)

#LorrieMoore

Just finished reading #Anagrams by #LorrieMoore.
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 #translation, it seem some humor was lost, and some had to be footnoted to make sense. "Lost in translation" and all that.

@bookstodon

So, having finished a book 3 days ago, now I finished another one 😅 ... "Easy #Prey" (2000), by #JohnSandford.
Probably the most fun I've had so far with the series and liked that it was a #thriller where we don't know #whodunnit, as opposed to the others I've read in the series. The humor was also on point for this one, and #LucasDavenport got some character development.

Now the question is: do I follow that with #LorrieMoore or #JohnUpdike?

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Yesterday I bought "Anagrams" by Lorrie Moore. I have only read a short story by her before (in a class about North American short stories), but I liked it. Spanish edition by Eternal Cadencia Editora, translated by Cecilia Pavón.

Ayer compré "Anagramas" de Lorrie Moore. Antes solo he leído un cuento de ella (en una clase de Cuento Norteamericano), pero me gustó. Edición de Eterna Cadencia. Traducción de Cecilia Pavón.

#books #libros #lorriemoore #Anagrams #Anagramas #EternaCadencia

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. #Bookstodon
Some of mine: #UrsulaKLeGuin #NKJemisin #CJCherryh #JohnSteinbeck #LorrieMoore #KimStanleyRobinson #RobinHobb