local, (over)earnest, often amateurish, community-minded, enthusiastic, goofy, non-slick, DIY:

the novel #TomsCrossing is set in 1982, but flash-forwards show that later on (in-universe), many unrelated people make art, fan-art, folk art etc. in reaction to stuff that happens in the book.

if you know the fediverse AND read the lengthy descriptions of these artworks, discussions, exhibition spaces etc., you will think: "same vibe!"

#bookstodon #markzdanielewski

I finally started to read Mark Z. Danielewski’s monumental novel Tom’s Crossing last night, and I already know I’m committed for the long haul. I’ve had the book on my shelves for a couple of months now but put off starting it until I had the (head)space to give it the attention it deserves.

I’m a fan of Danielewski’s work anyway, but this seems like something that reaches beyond even the best of his earlier writing. So many passages where I’m marvelling at the way he expresses both the mundane and the ineffable with such clarity and apparent ease.

There’s no comparable feeling, I think, to becoming truly lost in a grand work of the imagination.

#MarkZDanielewski #TomsCrossing #GreatAmericanNovel

#TomsCrossing is absolutely on another level for books. Every single word in this #novel is just breathtakingly beautiful.

I took the last couple of days off from reading due to life stress and I was immediately sucked back in as soon as I picked it back up today.

At 62 pages, that last chapter was every bit as intense as it was long!

This #book is just something else and I can’t get enough of it!

#NowReading #CurrentlyReading #Western #MarkZDanielewski

I’m only 149 pages into this 1232 page #novel and I can already tell you this will be the greatest #book I read in my life.

#TomsCrossing #MarkZDanielewski #Western #NowReading #CurrentlyReading

#TomsCrossing has been painfully slow going so far. Not because of the book, but because this house is so difficult to read in. There’s always too much going on and not enough silence. It literally took me 6 hours to read 63 pages. I feel like this book requires all of my attention and it’s so hard to do that here.

That being said, I’m very much enjoying this and it’s been quite interesting so far.

#NowReading #CurrentlyReading

The timing couldn’t have been much more perfect with the arrival of this chonky novel.

With less than a hundred pages left to read of #SenLinYu’s #Alchemised, I present to you my next adventure:

#MarkZDanielewski’s #TomsCrossing!

I’m so excited to read this! It’s being referred to as the next #MobyDick!

I’ve almost earned myself a $25 gift card through Fetch and I’m torn between buying myself a book I really want called #TomsCrossing, by #MarkZDanielewski, which is a 1200 page #Western #Horror novel, or I buy a 24 piece set of #Prismacolor #ColoredPencils, to go with the 36 I already have.

I want both, but can’t decide which to go for, so I come to you all for decision help!

My copy of #TomsCrossing came in...

*Squeals*

#bookstodon