Favorite reads of 2025, 7th book
#Worsted
#GarielleLutz
“I was living with a…older man...the poor guy had yet to find out that I had all along been overdoing it with a scathingly blond...I set limits,and then I cheat. It's darker in a room that has people in it than in one that doesn't."
Finished #Storiesintheworstway
#GarielleLutz
It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you- the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.
#Storiesintheworstway
#GarielleLutz
I watched my wife reach into a cabinet for a frying pan. I watched my daughter open the refrigerator door. I duly unloosened myself from my chair. I started off in the direction of the silverware drawer.
I went on with their life.
#Storiesintheworstway
#GarielleLutz
The trouble with coming was that I actually did arrive somewhere. I arrived at the place my body had already left. I got there just in time to get a good look at what had happened where things were.
Finished #Divorcer
#GarielleLutz
…she had me mostly right ("failures of empathy," "vengeful withdrawals")…because we were together only grittier after that….
If people say the marriage was a passing thing, what they mean is that it shot right past us. We couldn't keep up.
#Divorcer
#GarielleLutz
We had loved each other…over and around other people, and we had married each other…But divorcing was something only one of us could do to the other.
It was her hands, finally, that were inseparable. I could never get them to let go of each other and seek any hold on me.
Finished #Worsted
#GarielleLutz
She asked if l'd be up for picturing her life as continent after continent of graph paper not even written on a little. Such are the sweatful exactions of somebody trying somebody else's damnedest to be somebody else still.
#Worsted
#GarielleLutz
One night she wanted to know something about me. I coughed out an account of myself. I tried to make a case for having once wanted a full and tiring life. I described a bounteous enough marriage to a wife summarily venerated, a wife who sipped at life through last straws….
#Worsted
#TransferofTitle
#GarielleLutz
We would coach each other forward into bed, where she always thought she ought to owe herself something first…Yet when you touch someone- if you're going to take things that far- where all must the hand really go?
#Worsted
#GarielleLutz
…I was living with a groggily scholarly older man…the poor guy had yet to find out that I had all along been overdoing it with a scathingly blond…woman…I set limits, and then I cheat. It's darker in a room that has people in it than in one that doesn't.
#Worsted
#GarielleLutz
…his oldest is rarely present for what her life entails, by which he means…she is never quite actually in person and instead operates on a kind of delay, trailing after herself in her own wake, sinking only with reluctance into her accumulated life, then backing out again.
Sunday… books in bed day! #sunday #sundaychill #books #booksinbed #gariellelutz #williamhgass #haroldbrodkey #rilke #alejandrapizarnik
Reading update:
#péternádas #abookofmemories - just finished!
#gariellelutz #thecompletegarylutz - ongoing
#williamhgass #thetunnel - starting today!
To keep me going in between Gasses… #péternádas #abookofmemories #gariellelutz #thecompletegarylutz #Williamhgass #Omenstettersluck #TheTunnel #booksky
