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Karen’s 2021 Randomised Reading List
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This looks great. However, can I swap Silk out for another book as I have added it to my 2021 TBR challenge. Thanks.
All swaps will be done 1st Jan once you officially have the points to swap :)
My library has The Year of the Hare and The Optimist's Daughter. I have ordered Indigo. Looking forward to seeing what my Silk replacement is. Hopefully I can read more Randomizer items than last year! Now I just need my library to reopen...
I have read The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty.A moving portrayal of loss as Laurel Hand comes to terms with the death of her father, having already lost her mother and husband.
She is paralleled with her father's second wife Fay; a horrible character, disliked by all the women in the book (but not the men), she is grief stricken (but seemingly most of all by the fact her husband died on her birthday).
Ultimately, Laurel has the whole town behind her, and leaves with a better understanding of her past, her parents and how to let go. She is not obsessed with physical memories; she burns her mother's collection of letters and after a quarrel with Fay over her mother's breadboard (which Fay has damaged) she leaves. Fay is still obsessed with material objects and jealous of Laurel's mother and seems determined to get rid of many of the objects which made the house a home.
4 stars.
Please can I have a new book please?
1) The Year of the Hare Arto Paasilinna
✔ 2) The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty
3) Silk Alessandro Baricco4) Indigo Marina Warner (WL)
5) The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer
6) Watt Samuel Beckett
3PPs used for swaps