added ratings to the entries lol like people care

I appreciate it. Any 4 or higher that I don’t know I’m looking into.

Where do you live that you get such a steady supply of new books, Goof? Are there no other little free libraries for folks to drop books into?

why you gotta Goof me like that

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 1938

A truly amazing piece of literary history. I read this book like a drug that I was dependent on, getting agitated and anxious and finicky when it was not in my hands. Indeed one of the least put downable books I've read, blazing though the last third or so last night with no hope to withdraw from the situation.

The prose was immediately arresting but also never really leaving one in any sort of daze, quite readable. Character development is in full blast as a shy and young freshly married wife attempts to overcome the trace of their manor's late mistress. The tense and slightly neurotic passages/monologues are brilliant and unnerving in relation to sanity. Builds constantly upon a growing surplus of maddening tension and anxiety and another feeling I suppose you could call love.

Masterpiece.

5/5

could a mod merge my library thread https://www.musicbanter.com/media/93...e-library.html with this one and take the 2018 out of the journal title

seems like that should've been a logical course of action in the first place. I also still have books from before that I didn't say anything about.

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Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke, 1998

Pretty gritty crime novel that had amazingly original atmosphere that might remind one of a darkish shade of purple. A lot of people get busted up in a mess of murder and extortion and prejudice where justice is backwards.

I think it had a lot of characters and minor situations that it got somewhat more difficult to follow but nothing must have left my mind as I was reminded of the whole affair in better clarity by the time we screech to the end.

4.5/5

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, 2008

After finishing this publication I felt a touch conflicted. The two narrators go about their lives with supremely haughty and patronizing observations of the world around them and make me feel like I wouldn't want to affiliate with these jerks and that probably just goes to prove them right.

Excessive words and cliches but also humorous in a unique and some other things. I just didn't connect with a lot of what was said.

3.5/5

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002

For all its significance I wasn't even aware of this book before reading it, but it deserves the credit. Quite an epic contemporary odyssey of self discovery, spanning generations and countries aplenty. Our narrator tells the vast and inexplicably precise tale of his insanely incestuous Greek family and the dormant mutation that marked his life as an often confused young girl. It's quite heart warming and easy to get a hold of despite its wordy nature. It talks about the prevailing of love and emotion and personality and the ultimate triumph over genetics. Its heavy with the genetics too, though. I learned a lot about the intricate science of rare hormonal mutations and ambiguous genitalia but it never loosened the grip on my heart. It's also frequently humorous and has treated me to one of the most hilarious lines I've ever read.

5/5

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Lean On Pete by Willy Vlautin, 2010

Pretty much every single person I'd seen say anything about this book likened it to a modern day Steinbeck, and while I don't have enough experience to back that up myself, I figured it's a good thing to say.

This is a simple and incredibly genuine story of a youth on his own. It obviously struck some heavy cords with me and I could relate to much of the journey and the emotions therein. The young narrator finds himself alone in a strange and intimidating world, traveling with only vague aim and he needs all the help he can get. The road is littered with just as much hardship as it is with cigarette butts, and sometimes glazed in torture and I know this all too well. He's traveling pretty heavy with an entire horse, too.

The ending was nice but not so satisfying in a literary way, but that doesn't really matter with this book. It's the experiences beforehand that poke at your feelings and empathy is on high for this boy that never really got to be a normal boy.

4/5