What Fiction are you reading this week, April 23, 2023?

[RSherman]

14. I'm reading "The Lincoln Highway"

I love the part about Woolly, the dictionary, and the thesaurus. He loves the dictionary because he can look up a word and get its meaning. The thesaurus, however, just boggles his mind because it gives him 10 other words for the word he's looking up. He finds this very upsetting. He finally burns it on the football field, which then sets the goalpost on fire. At his disciplinary hearing, the Dean calls it a "fire"; the faculty rep. calls it a "blaze", and the football captain refers to it as a "conflagration".

"And Woolly knew right then and there that no matter what he had to say, they were all going to take the side of the thesaurus."

Love it!

I'm also reading "Our House" by Louise Candlish