Okay, if you're a fan of lint and a good thriller, check out The Wife Between Us. I finished this book over the weekend and highly recommend it.
Here's the lint passage in this novel:
"Shameful," Maureen joined in. She brushed a piece of lint off Richard's lapel. It struck Nellie as a maternal gesture. Even though Richard was an orphan, at least he had a big sister who clearly adored him.
This book has more twists and turns than Lombard Street in San Francisco.
It's more the way this story was told than the story itself that is so intriguing, I think. Original and well done.
I love coming across the word 'lint' when I'm reading a book. Lucky me, I just found one!
In the book The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve here's the quote where lint is mentioned:
Grace tries her book again, but reads the same sentence three times. "Have you ever been married?" she asks, pulling a piece of lint from her powder blue sweater.
This novel is just as good as the rest of Shreve's books. I think I've read them all, they're so good!
The Stars Are Fire is the story of Grace, a woman whose life drastically is upended from a catastrophic fire that changes everything.
My book club recently picked this book, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, for our January book. Since I read like a turtle (well, I'm not sure turtles actually read but I read slow, like a turtle moves), I decided to start reading it now.
I'm about done, only about 200 pages to go. I'm reading the large print version so it's over 700 pages! But it's so worth it! This book is wonderful! The author is a fabulous writer, the story is unique and compelling, and it's gentle and soothing to read.
Basically, I love it!
Here is the excerpt that contained lint:
Yes, generally speaking such a remark falling from the lips of a statesman should be swept from the floor with the dust and the lint. But when it fell from the lips of Soso, one had good reason to lend it credence.
I've also learned from reading this book that Soso is a childhood nickname of Stalin. That's just one of the hundreds (thousands?) of tidbits you'll pick up. Of course I don't retain such stuff but it's a fascinating historical look at Russia and our world from the early twentieth century through the 1950s (I think, I'm not done yet).
Check out A Gentleman in Moscow if the real world is driving you crazy. This book is a balm against the daily bullshit.
As I just typed that heading, I realized it makes perfect sense that there would be lint near a spool of blue thread.
So, I finished A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler last week and like all of her novels, loved it. She is a pro at writing novels with great character development and tidbits of everyday life that are easy to read but that are also engaging.
Here's the lint excerpt from this novel:
The rug was linty, the floor was strewn with cast-off hangers and dry-cleaner's bags, and a hard gray light from the stripped windows gave the room a bleak and uncared-for look.
So, in this instance, lint isn't technically used, but linty is. I'll take it.
What are you reading lately? Have any good lint stories to share?
Well, long time, no see. I should be ashamed. It's been almost a year since I last posted here and I know I've read the word 'lint' in more than one book. Did I post about it? NO!
Sorry.
But I'm posting now about a novel I recently finished and it had the word at least twice. I'll just post one since I forgot to mark the second one. By the way, I loved this book. So, here's the excerpt:
Then I went through the process of wiring him up: soaking squares of lint with salt solution, fixing these to the electrode plates; putting the plates in position on his leg with elastic bindings.
This book is kinda creepy, kinda spooky, all good! I just loved it and relished every page.
Okay, I can't believe it was last September when I last posted here. Oops!
Anyway, I am reading a wonderful book, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow. And last night I spotted this gem:
"Tristan, I'm going to marry Remington Arrow." Lettuce brushed some lint from her sleeve in an effort to appear very casual. "Don't look so shocked. You knew this was going to happen."
If you haven't read this book, oh boy, you're lucky. You get to read it! If you want to, of course. But I highly recommend it. It's well written and has an interesting premise.
I just finished reading Lori Rader-Day's novel Little Pretty Things, literally, like 10 minutes ago. I loved this book. And there's a nugget in there, on page 180. A lint nugget!
"My own house is too clean now, you know? I see a piece of lint, and I have to stop and pick it up, and I look at it, try to decide where it came from."
Lint aside, this novel is a mystery that had me stumped till the killer was revealed. Well, I sort of had an idea but it was so good! Read it! With more than 24 5-star reviews on Amazon, it's not just me who likes this one.
