It's been a good, solid busy, as you can see if the hard stuff is where your reading needs are right now. This mess of words and ideas is what's kept Author Parsons busy the past twelve or so years. The whole collection's about the messiness of being alive, the passionlessness of the quotidian, purple cabbage Thai dishes that jumble against red beards, hairy armpits. Like a playlist of stuff you can't remember liking when you were twenty but comes up when you enter the year you turned twenty into YouTube's maw. You might, in fact, prefer solitude on the trip, but by definition, reading is an accompanied silence. The there you're going with Author Parsons is the there that we try hard to deal with each in our separate ways, the there that we hate but need. You know the "there" I mean, that there that Gertrude Stein railed against not being there in Oakland, California, circa 1920. ***NOVEMBER 2019 UPDATE*** This delightful book has unseated the presumptive champion to become my annual six-stars-of-five bestestest read of the year!ĪND it was a 2019 NBA longlister.AND it's in the 2020 Tournament of Books!ĭon't start this read if you're not ready to go there.
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