Lint in Literature: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

I found some lint! I was reading the novel Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng last night and came across this line:

Lydia hugged her knees under the dining table, 

cookbookless; Nath picked lint from the carpet and glowered. 

This book is really good so if you love a good read (and lint), you might want to read it, too.

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Lint in Literature: After the War is Over and Now Write! Mysteries

I read this lint in literature in After the War is Over by Jennifer Robson:




After the War Is Over: A Novel

His hair, rather charmingly, was standing on end, and his days-old beard had a thread of lint caught up in the hairs.

I've been reading a lot of nonfiction books lately and found lint in one of them. Oh happy day!

The book is titled Now Write! Mysteries. In it Harley Jane Kozak, a funny writer of mysteries, wrote a section called The Telling Detail. A telling detail is one thing a writer says about a character to keep them in the reader's mind. Here's her linty entry:

"Elderly" becomes "She had grandmother hair, so fragile and fine and soft it might have been lint plucked from the clothes dryer and stuck atop her head."

Love it!

Now Write! Mysteries: Suspense, Crime, Thriller, and Other Mystery Fiction Exercises from Today's Best  Writers and Teachers

Lint in Literature: All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner

I was thrilled to find a variation of the word lint in All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner on page 8 of this interesting novel:

The magazine was still open to the quiz on the couch beside me. I grabbed it, bending my head to avoid the scrutiny of the ubermommy two seats down whose adorable newborn was cradled against her body in a pristine Moby Wrap; the one who was not wearing linty black leggings from Target and whose eyebrows had enjoyed the recent attention of tweezers.

Then later near the end of the book, there is was again. Lint.

Every year, I was allowed to buy a single souvenir. The summer I was eight years old, I'd saved a few dollars of tooth fairy and allowance money, augmented by the quarters I'd cadged from the sofa cushions and the dollar bills from the lint filter in the dryer.

Do you read Weiner's books? She also wrote In Her Shoes and Little Earthquakes. All so good!

All Fall Down: A Novel

Lint in Literature: Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman

I started reading Mannequin Girl by Ellen Litman last night. What a treat to see the word lint used twice in the first paragraph!

Here's the first time lint is used:

Later she takes the dress off, puts it back on its hanger, 
makes sure there's not a speck of lint on it, 
not a wrinkle on the seat of the skirt.

Then later, this sentence appears, very similar to the first:

Slowly, lovingly, she takes off her dress, 
makes sure there's not a speck of lint of it, 
returns it to the hanger. 

I think I'm really going to like this novel about a Russian girl with scoliosis of the spine.

Mannequin Girl: A Novel

Lint in Literature: Lucky Us by Amy Bloom

It's been awhile since I posted here on my lint blog. So sorry! I have cleaned my dryer's lint filter since I last posted but that's about all the lint I've had in my life, I guess, until last night!

I was reading my book, Lucky Us by Amy Bloom, and what appeared? Lint! Here's the excerpt:

I did notice that the ladies were very happy for me to use the lint brush on their furniture, make tea, and empty the trash, and would you mind, there's a good girl, just take the dog for walkies while I'm drying.


Lucky Us: A Novel


This novel is a delight! I've read a few of Amy Bloom's other novels and this one is just as good. 

Uses for Dryer Lint from the Krazy Coupon Lady

My niece just let me know about a cool article called "6 Weird Ways to Recycle Dryer Lint." I was all over that!

You can read the article by clicking the link above, but the one that really stood out to me was using dryer lint to make papier-mache! Makes sense and I bet it works really well, too!

I hope you had a good Christmas and have a linty new year! Here are some lint rollers to keep you lint free, if that's how you roll.


Scotch-Brite Lint Roller, 5 Count, 95 Sheets

The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott

I've had shingles for a week now and had, what my doctor thought was a sore or blister near my right eye. So, I've been having to wear gauze over my eye during the day and an eye patch at night. This one-eyed situation made it really hard to do certain things, like read!



So, I figured out, with my daughter's help, how to download an audiobook onto my iPad to listen to instead of reading an actual book. I quickly chose The Daring Ladies of Lowell by Kate Alcott from my library using the Overdrive app. I am loving this book!

Last night while lying in bed, they mentioned lint. The ladies work in a textile mill in 1832 in Lowell, Massachusetts so there is lint flying from the cotton used to make the fabric. I didn't catch the sentence since I was listening, instead of reading, but it was a wonderful use of the word lint and had to share it with you.

If you like historical fiction (and lint), you can't go wrong with The Daring Ladies of Lowell.