Kate Brandt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Kate Brandt

She is scared of sleep, that world of parallels and suggestions, infinite regress, all those objects, homesick for their lost meanings. — from Tides, by Sara Freeman #amreading

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His body seemed to be an infelicitous but tolerable accident to him. From Trust, by Hernan Diaz #SundaySentence

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In those days, he was a sketch, an outline; I had wanted him to be more than he was, without being able to see where the extra would come from. —from Transit by Rachel Cusk #SundaySentence

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She blooms out of the radio like a balloon with a face on it, smiling, wanting you to like her, vibrating with things to say—the narrator’s take on a writer interviewed on the radio, from Veronica by Mary Gaitskill #SundaySentence

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Night closes in on the perjured ministers and burnt-out pedophiles, on the unloved viaducts and graffitied bridges, on ditches beneath moldering hedgerows and railings never warmed by human touch. —Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black #SundaySentence

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Her aloneness was all around her like an extra layer of air. —Ellen Cooney, One Night Two Souls Went Walking #SundaySentence

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@authorofmagic0 A book I really loved recently: We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin

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“You know, the more you write, the more I can see that, unlike me, you are fundamentally uninterested in the difference between reality and unreality.” From Meng Jin, Self-Portrait with Ghost #amreading #SundaySentence

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My review of “Living Dolls and Other Women” by S. Montana Katz, published by @guernica_ed posted today in @NecessaryFic. Thanks to @dianegreco for her editorial eye & improvements.

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Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes. Flowers, frogs, fish, feathers, and fruit all show that sight affects what is seen, & that much of what we find beautiful in nature has been shaped by the vision of our fellow animals. —Ed Yong, An Immense World #SundaySentence