Book #12 in 2013
Juliet, Naked
by Nick Hornby
"Annie loves Duncan — or
thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he
doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish
singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops
loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life.
In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been languishing (and he's unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin-his young son, Jackson. But then there's also the new material he's about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet — entitled, Juliet, Naked.
What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise."
In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been languishing (and he's unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin-his young son, Jackson. But then there's also the new material he's about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet — entitled, Juliet, Naked.
What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise."
April 8th to 13th - 5 1/2 days - kindle book
Notes:
I have been seeing that cover all over the place for ever and I kept thinking it was Nick & Norah and it never was but I never picked it up and then I saw it when I was looking for kindle books and it was checked in and I was like fine I am supposed to read this book so I did.
It was good. Not my favorite ever, but I liked it.
That was the worst fun-on sentence I have ever written probably.
Read in Bali.
