THE HARE, by Melanie Finn

Hello readers. Long time no write! We’re rolling out a meetup at long last! We took the pandemic seriously and laid low but also Bri and I have a baby that we are still learning about, and even though we’ve watched everything on TV twice we haven’t been reading as much.* We have been reading about reading however, and one of our favorite authors has a new book out and we have been watching the hoopla about it grow. We are hoping in-person meetups can resume by late Summer, but let's have a remote meetup for one in the meantime!

The author we would come out of hibernation for is Melanie Finn. We read her book THE GLOAMING two and a half years ago in Literature and Libations. Though we acknowledge it never happens, the way we remember the meetup is everyone loved it! The novel is credible and horrible and magical and fresh, and complemented by a literary voice we claim is the finest currently being written. That winter we read her book THE UNDERNEATH in Jeff-New Albany Book Club and pretty much everyone liked that one except sad sack me was a little butt hurt cuz it wasn’t perfect! (Perfection is like super rare Man, and this one coulda, shoulda, ach!) Anyway, this book is also good and full of subtleness and brooding. Some murdery bits are shoehorned in, but most reassuringly it has a quirky plot and a Melanie Finn narrative: the words, the grammar, the pacing, the tone and all the whatever that constitutes the voice you hear when you read a book is not ever done better by any living author, and now her newest novel is out and the reviewers from all the big newspapers are fawning over it and it is already in its second printing and we’re just like, yea about time!
SOoooo WITH THAT SET UP, I present to YOU, THE HARE by Melanie Finn.
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Oh and get it local at Carmichael’s and get 20% off by mentioning it’s the May book club book for this club.

*According to GoodReads, Bri cut back but still chainsmoked 55 books last year including White Teeth (Whoa!) and a book that was only 8 pages (WTF?) My account says 0 books read in 2020. About half right as usual. I read all the books on the Presidents reading list and maybe more.

If you have a GR’s account and it says you read a lot and/or review a lot or even a little, tell us cuz we may put together list of who the local GR influencers are or should be, because who doesn’t want to know that?

CC: Literature and Libations in Louisville, Jeff-New Albany Book Club, NYRB Classics Book Club (Name Change in Discussion)