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The Husbands by Holly Gramazio is the next book for the book club, that I can't seem to meet with. I've fallen asleep before the meetings the last two times.  It's speculative fiction where a woman comes home to a different husband. It could be horror because she's so scared at this alteration of reality, but it's more like Groundhog Day . Reality changes enough so that it makes sense, and she has a pictures of the surprise husband on her phone lock screen, and in her photos. There are changes, but not enough to be a completely different world. It becomes a mystery, who is my husband? It's a rorschach for who she wants to be. In the 3rd chapter we learn the mechanism, if he goes into the attic, a new guy comes down and the walls and whatnot change. Some are more handsome than others, one is naked, they have different accents. My first thought was of a German movie called  I’m Your Man (2021) (Ich bin dein Mensch). In that movie, a woman is given a companion an...

Why not title it the cruelty instead of unkindness ? It emphasizes the lack of virtue than the vice.  It's Afrofuturism, a plantation in a traveling spaceship. All the various problems are worse in poverty, and neurodivergence is one of them, avoiding gender issues by being a they, though others call Aster a she. Aster is a healer in the slave area of the ship.  Rivers Solomon has a few interesting changes in their looks: Notes: 27 pages a day until we meet for the book club.  I like it that Solomon has Keats' negative capability .  The mean guard imagines they should thank him for being such an asshole. It reminds me of a certain person who gets imaginary peace prizes and starts wars.  The sections have different narrators. I didn't make the book club, and I'm almost done, but I came across the sentence where she used the unkindness idea. My translation is, the unkindness of ghosts is that we're reactive, and have unhelpful traumatic reactions to situations i...

Siri Hustvedt is openly mourning the loss of Paul Auster on Facebook with photos of notes he wrote her, and photos of them when they were young.  In my early 20's friends visited my wife, and he had The New York Trilogy . I read it and loved it. Read his poems. Read almost everything he's published, not quite everything he edited. I saw him read one of his novels at a book reading. Watched movies he was involved in. Listened to his daughter's music. Read some of his wife's books. Read his wife's sister's book on hysteria. Read his last book.  Another one