lettersfromgrace's reviews
90 reviews

This book was made by the ending, otherwise, despite its beautiful prose and the love for literature Stoner expresses, I found it difficult to feel pathos for the man; and perhaps that was the point. The tragedy of the everyman is that it doesn’t matter, like Lomax and Stoner’s petty feud. 

I can accept my issue with this novel was personal, and I would still recommend it to anyone interested in the campus novel & reading about teaching. 

great studies of male & female relationships, deeply enjoyed the dark humour of the eponymous story. my first truly autumnal read this year!! 

i needed these short stories after nausea by jean-paul sartre; gorgeous existential writings that are sensual and sumptuous, and aware of the duality of our nauseas, their lionesses of compassion too, the fear and benevolence. with their feminist discussions upon how men retain female happiness within mediocrity in ‘amor’ through the idea of a protective love, how men want women there on their saturday, just to have them, possessions, like a sickness, they are of such profound thought. i hope to read a novel by lispector soon. 

i have never cried for a character within a play like i cried for blanche. the modern tragedy. incredible. 

sweet poems with warmth in the retrospective and reflective nature of life, whilst being wholly realistic and aware of the darkness that exists within life, too often ignored in nostalgia. well-balanced. 

it lives up to being called a comedy! 

the book that got me into reading classics 

my introduction to poetry reading outside of school, and carol ann duffy did not let me down! so grateful this anthology existed & was there for me at that time 

this novel has saved me in veritable ways. i have so much love for it & plath.