BOOK #13

The biggest challenge for me with this pledge is not remembering WHY I have a certain book in my collection. When I pulled this one out, the title was familiar but I had no clue. All I do know about my collection is that each one of these books was the result of a purposeful buy or swap. It could be a recommend from one of my book blogs or a book someone told me about - or a million other reasons.

But, the upside of this pledge is discovering great books like this one. I was so engaged by this writer that I read this book in 2 1/2 train rides (or about 1 1/2 hours). And it wasn't the story so much as the actual writing that got me. This story is all set in one day. And I've come to really like this genre. Last year, I read a book called Last Night at the Lobster. It was all set in the last evening of a Red Lobster that was closing for good. These type of books always read very fast because the author doesn't have the luxury of spreading out the story for years, months or days. They have to get right to it. I find these books truly enjoyable.

This story weaves the lives of an entire street of people and the 'remarkable things' that do or don't go on in one day. Even though it's odd, I even enjoyed the author's lack of punctuation - the story almost seemed poetic without all the herking jerking around with punctuation.

I don't believe this book would be for anyone in my book club. Or for a lot of readers, actually. It's an oddity, a rarity and one must truly have a love for writing to appreciate it. It's probably the best book I've have read this year.