SEPTUP: Cheryl Glickman is the product of loneliness. Well, that and other things. She’s a forty-something who lives alone and works at a self defense non-profit. It’s unclear if she’s ever had a serious relationship. My guess would be that she hasn’t. I’m making this guess based off of just how des...
Title The First Bad Man Who wrote it? Miranda July, scarily accomplished artist, movie maker and now novelist. In twenty years time she’ll probably be running for President or brokering world peace or something. More info at her website. Plot in a Box: A lonely forty-something’s world is t...
Expelling the Dust'The Man on the Stairs' (book club read)The Man on the Stairs is an extended snapshot in a woman's life, in which a familiar (July gives it a tired, worn out feeling, like the T-shirt the woman is wearing, doubtless ugly and shapeless, unloved, a stultifying comfort-zone) sequence ...
The way the book summary was written I expected to be moved by the plotline, as well as to see a side of people that may have eluded me prior. This one read very fast, but it got to the point where I started flipping pages and just wanted to get to the end. Some of the stories July wrote about in th...
Miranda July corners the market on sad, eccentric, borderline psychotic characters. They were disturbing and what was more disturbing was seeing parts of myself in almost all of them. This collection was a huge punch in the gut.
Miranda July writes for relationship damaged city dwellers: those between Sex And The City and Woody Allen movies. Mythical creatures randomly thrown into this world, amazed while permanently shaking their heads over everything, and somehow still getting along. In almost all of those 16 stories ar...
Was just approved for this on NetGalley. Yay! I'm looking forward to reading it :)Though I might want to try to search out the first book in the series for this if I can do so.
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