So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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This was both the best and the funniest book I read this year. It's been difficult for me to find literary fiction I relate to that is not depressing. I'm not sure whether that's a commentary on me, the genre, the world, but it's been true since I was an adolescent. This is one of the rare exceptions.
Anyway, it's a sprawling,looping, wide-spanning story that I need to read again.
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A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
alidalinc, January 28, 2011
This was both the best and the funniest book I read this year. It's been difficult for me to find literary fiction I relate to that is not depressing. I'm not sure whether that's a commentary on me, the genre, the world, but it's been true since I was an adolescent. This is one of the rare exceptions.Anyway, it's a sprawling,looping, wide-spanning story that I need to read again.