the road

I just finished Cormac Mccarthy's The Road. It was intense, and not intense. "Unpyschological," one reviewer calls it, and I agree. But that doesn't mean it wasn't deep or dense, in spite of the sparse language.
I intended to post a couple of quotes from the book to throw here on the blog, but I returned it already to Jess who I borrowed it from, and it's surprisingly difficult, online, to find many quotes from it. Even then, I don't know if it's the type of writing that lends itself to excerpting. I don't think I can quote capture the complexity in the book by pulling a 10-line passage.
Next I think I'll start Alyson's book, set in Wyoming. Snow, Ashes. Meanwhile I've got plenty of work-related reading to do (and seem to somehow be falling even further behind....), but fiction is some medicine for the soul.

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