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fella-lovin-fella · 1 year

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losing my mind over this, actually.

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on-poetry · 2 years

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He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

#quotes #less #andrew sean greer #literature #queer lit

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quotespile · 1 year

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How can so many things become a bore by middle age — philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods — but heartbreak keeps its sting?

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

#literature #quotes #Andrew Sean Greer #Less #quote #books #lit

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litsnaps · 2 days

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#literature #quotes #Andrew Sean Greer #Less #quote #lit #books #words

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jhsjykwpdw · 4 months

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you can't spell lonesome without me

#anne shirley #anne of green gables #anne of the island #arthur less #less andrew sean greer #in memoriam #sidney ellwood #henry gaunt #trc #adam parrish #the poppy war #tpw #fang runin #aftg #the foxhole court #neil josten #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence #robin swift

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themelodyofspring · 1 month

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge

March 20 - Hello, Spring🌷

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #less #andrew sean greer #booklr #mypics #books #books and flowers #bookblr #books and plants #tbr #lgbt books

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yourtrashcollector · 11 months

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Ma sappiamo benissimo che il grande amore della vita non esiste. L’amore non è una cosa estrema come quella (il colpo di fulmine). E’ portare fuori il cazzo di cane così l’altro può continuare a dormire, è fare la dichiarazione dei redditi, è pulire il bagno senza prendersela. E’ avere un alleato nella vita. Non è fuoco né fiamme né fulmini.

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

#amore #relazioni #frasi relazione #relazione #citazione libro #citazione #libro #letteratura #passione #coppia #Less #Andrew Sean Greer

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evenaturtleduck · 2 months

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How is this book so fucking funny?

(and more importantly, funny without being mean. we're laughing at this poor guy, but also we love him, and so does the narrator, so it's ok)

#less is lost #andrew sean greer #currently reading

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therefugeofbooks · 2 years

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Happy June 🌈

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aurorawest · 7 months

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Reading update

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault - DNF

I have to admit I didn't give this one much of a chance. I got it in a Rainbow Crate so I felt compelled to at least try to read it, but it's just not my kind of thing, and I DNFed at page 4. Really didn't like the writing style.

Idol Minds by KT Salvo - 2.75/5 stars

Almost DNFed this when I was about 50 pages from the end because it very abruptly lost my attention. I never really liked either of the main characters so I didn't care about their breakup or HEA. Also the sex scenes were weirdly short but also repetitive, somehow?

Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse - 3.75/5 stars

I will be completely honest and admit that I could remember almost nothing of the first book when I started reading this the other day. I remembered that I really liked it, and that was about it. This one was...good?

Ok, so, let me see if I can put this into words. During the pandemic, authors kept writing, right? Especially if they were under contract to produce a series. And for some authors, that was fine. There is no discernible difference in their work. And then other authors, it's like...the anxiety brain fog got baked into their writing. There's nothing technically wrong with it. Things are happening. The characters are still engaging. And yet...sometimes it just feels like...things are happening. Like the author couldn't really process the emotions of the things happening, and thus couldn't really write feeling into the work? So it becomes just Things Happening. And I know how I should feel about it, but I'm not feeling it. Like when the dose of your antidepressant is too high, and you just have no feelings? It's sort of like that.

On the Rooftop by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - DNF

There's nothing wrong with this book, tbh—it's well written with an interesting setting, characters with depth, and a theme that should, in theory, interest me. That said, I just wasn't feeling it. I won this book from my local bookstore and it's the sort of literary fiction that I read all the time in my teens and early twenties, even though I never really enjoyed it? I'm a genre fiction kid, as it turns out.

My Dear Henry: A Jekyll and Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron - 4/5 stars

I really really liked this, and I probably would have rated it higher, except it fell into the trap that a lot of queer retellings of classics do: in being forced to hew to a plot line from a century or more ago, a lot of story and character depth has to be jettisoned. This book did a much better job than The Henchman of Zenda by KJ Charles, but I still found myself wanting a more modern storytelling style. Overall it was really good, though.

Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer - 4.75/5 stars

I hated Less for most of the time I was reading it (but it didn't bore me, so that's something). When I got to the end and realized it was a romance, I ended up loving it, but I had to split the difference in my rating, haha. This is the direct sequel and I loved it. It's laugh out loud funny (which I did not find Less to be most of the time) and melancholy, but at its heart is also a love story.

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain - 4/5 stars

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske - 5/5 stars (reread)

I loved it even more on the reread. I would die for Edwin and Robin. I'm crazy excited for A Power Unbound.

Hoarfrost by Jordan L Hawk - 4.25/5 stars

Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda - 3.5/5 stars

I never know how to rate thrillers because honestly, they aren't my genre. This was part of the batch of books I won at trivia from my local bookstore. It was good in that it held my attention and was entertaining (and a bit creepy), but like, I don't know that I'll tell people that they simply must read it. But yeah, I read it in a day, so it's a quick read.

Spell Bound by FT Lukens - DNF

Ugh. Reads like my fantasy epic I was writing when I was 14 (see also: TJ Klune's Verania series). When I'm mentally editing the book as I'm reading, you know that's a bad sign. The first chapter could have been like, 2 pages (instead it was 18). Here's how Chapter 3, which introduces the other main character begins: Summer was such a waste of time and effort. Spring was okay. Autumn was the best. Winter wasn't bad.

Okay???? Great??????? Why do I care? I read for another page after that. Lukens is an author I really, really want to like, but the last two books I've read by them are just obnoxious. I could forgive The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths and Magic because it was one of their first books (it might have been their first?), but this...is not their first book, yet that's what it reads like. I suspect this is a manuscript they wrote a while ago, shelved, and brought it back out now that they're having success.

Heart of Dust by HL Moore - 5/5 stars

You know when you read a book that's so good, and you can't figure out why the hell you had to stumble across it by going down some algorithm recommendation rabbit hole? This is one of those books. Gritty and unique sci-fi setting, a backdrop of labor rights, aching gay mutual pining? Please read this.

#baker thief #idol minds #fevered star #rebecca roanhorse #reading tag #on the rooftop #my dear henry #kalynn bayron #less is lost #andrew sean greer #a marvellous light #freya marske #such a quiet place #megan miranda #spell bound #heart of dust #hl moore

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someone-is · 8 months

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From Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

#less is lost #literature #andrew sean greer

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iamdexter123 · 10 months

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By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab. A mediocre review or careless slight can no longer harm him, but heartbreak, real true heartbreak, can pierce his thin hide and bring out the same shade of blood as ever. How can so many things become a bore by middle age—philosophy, radicalism, and other fast foods—but heartbreak keeps its sting?

- Andrew Sean Greer, Less

#quotes #andrew sean greer #Less #funny and precious and endearing #I want a suit of Lessian blue #I read the sequel first #try not to do that #dexterreads

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quotespile · 8 months

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So many people will do. But once you’ve actually been in love, you can’t live with “will do”; it’s worse than living with yourself.

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

#literature #quotes #Andrew Sean Greer #Less #quote #books #lit

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cherrychapati · 4 months

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how do i find someone who's as obsessed with less as i am !!!! its such a good book i cry everytime i think about it