WWTBAM Bored

Weirdly, I've just read two Pulitzer winners lately. Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteredge, Olive Again, The Burgess Boys, Amy and Isabelle. Fab writer Seriously.
Just unfinshed A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan. SUCKED.

It seems short story compilations are a thing. Strout does it well. Egan needs a slap upside the head, plus ya need at least one character about whom you give one shit.
Tada.

A Visit from the Good Squad was an experimental novel, and I think it won based on that technique more than anything else. I met Jennifer Egan at a reception for her newest book Manhattan Beach, which I thought was much better than Goon Squad. In fact, I got a picture of me with her...

Maybe I'll try her new one.

Beebs52 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:58 am

Maybe I'll try her new one.

It's good, set in the home front during WWII.

There were quite a few Pulitzer winners that I would never have read otherwise. It's funny how a book can be regarded as the best of the year when it came out, and how only some of those stand the test of time.

I really, really like Elizabeth Strout.