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#ImmerWiederSonntags kommt die Erinnerung. Literarische Retro-Empfehlungen zum WE.

Heute mit dem vorletzten Kurzgeschichtenband von #TCBoyle, 19 Erzählungen aus den letzten Jahren, von "Birnam Wood" bis "Wiedererleben". Mein Favorit ist die 16: "Was Wasser wert ist, weißt du (erst, wenn du keins mehr hast)" 💧

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Sind wir nicht Menschen, T. C. Boyle, 2020
#LiteraturBlogKreis

💥 #Flashback: https://e-script.de/flashback

𝗧.𝗖. 𝗕𝗼𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁
TV- / Streaming-Tipp ★ Richard David Precht im Gespräch mit dem US-Schriftsteller T.C. Boyle: Thema: Ist unsere Zivilsation noch zu retten?

https://auxlitera.de/2025/12/05/t-c-boyle-meets-precht/

#tcboyle #precht #richarddavidprecht #zdf #talk #literatur #zdf
@ZDF
@tcboyle

𝗧.𝗖. 𝗕𝗼𝘆𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵𝘁
TV- / Streaming-Tipp ★ Richard David Precht im Gespräch mit dem US-Schriftsteller T.C. Boyle: Thema: Ist unsere Zivilsation noch zu retten?

https://auxlitera.de/2025/12/05/t-c-boyle-meets-precht/

#tcboyle #precht #richarddavidprecht #zdf #talk #literatur #zdf
@ZDF
@tcboyle

Happy Birthday, #TCBoyle!

Glückwünsche zum 77. Und zu dieser Gelegenheit ein paar Hinweise zu meinem Abschluss der Buchbesprechungen zu allen boyleschen Romanen und Kurzgeschichten

🔗 https://e-script.de/2025/happy-birthday-tc-boyle/

Nebenbei, ich beneide Boyle nicht: Erntedank und Geburtstag weit weg von zu Hause, ausgerechnet im frühwinterlichen Deutschland 🥶
Aber was tut man nicht alles für eine treue Leserschaft.

#Buchbesprechung im Oktober: #TCBoyle|s 20. und aktueller Roman lässt uns einen eindringlichen Blick auf den Zustand der US-ame­ri­ka­ni­schen Gesellschaft werfen. Auf einen Zustand, der nicht allzuviel Gutes verheißt. Der Autor zeigt uns, was sich Menschen selbst antun können, aber auch was sie ihren Mitmenschen anzutun in der Lage sind. Ich bin wieder mal ziemlich begeistert.

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No Way Home, T. C. Boyle, 2025
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-no-way-home

𝗠ü𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻-𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗸

Lesungen, Live-Streams & Tickets ★ T.C. Boyle, Ocean Vuong, Ferdinand von Schirach, Pen!smuseum, Stadelmann liest Höcke, Sten Nadolny, Lars Eidinger, Sebastian Fitzek, Ian McEwan und mehr. auxlitera präsentiert mit seinen Ticketpartnern Reservix und Eventim Karten für die Big Ones in Big München.

► https://auxlitera.de/2025/09/07/muenchen-mosaik/

#münchen #literatur #lesungen #larseidinger #tcboyle #oceanvuong

𝗠ü𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻-𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗸

Lesungen, Live-Streams & Tickets ★ T.C. Boyle, Ocean Vuong, Ferdinand von Schirach, Pen!smuseum, Stadelmann liest Höcke, Sten Nadolny, Lars Eidinger, Sebastian Fitzek, Ian McEwan und mehr. auxlitera präsentiert mit seinen Ticketpartnern Reservix und Eventim Karten für die Big Ones in Big München.

► https://auxlitera.de/2025/09/07/muenchen-mosaik/

#münchen #literatur #lesungen #larseidinger #tcboyle #oceanvuong

Just started Talk To Me by Boyle and even if only into the first pages I know that this will hurt. That feeling started in chapter 2 which is written from the chimpanzee's perspective. Phew.

#bookstodon #TCBoyle #TalkToMe

Just started Talk To Me by Boyle and even if only into the first pages I know that this will hurt. That feeling started in chapter 2 which is written from the chimpanzee's perspective. Phew.

#bookstodon #TCBoyle #TalkToMe

Time for another book recommendation: Blue skies - #tcboyle
an exuberant book about the end of the world.
#books #bookstodon

Currently reading and almost finished Outside Looking In [2019] by T. C. Boyle which is great fictionalized history of LSD and it's discoverers and early "scientific" users. It's also a bit horrible to take in - cause Boyle is not taking sides or talking morale, staying neutral in telling the story from different people's perspectives. Absolutely weird. And fascinating. 🧪💊🍄📚

#TCBoyle #bookstodon @bookstodon #LSD

#Buchbesprechung im Februar: Für Fans des US-Schriftstellers #TCBoyle ist diese Sammlung von 14 Erzählungen ein unabdingbares Muss. Mindestens zwei seiner Kurzgeschichten enthalten so viele Hinweise auf Boyles Biografie, dass die Leserschaft aus dem Grinsen kaum herauskommt. Oder aus dem Schaudern? 🐯

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Zähne und Klauen, T.C. Boyle, 2008

#LiteraturBlogKreis
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-zaehne-und-klauen

Leben in Asbestkleidung


Vorweggeschickt:
Ein Büchernarr bin ich wirklich nicht. Der Name #TCBoyle sagt mir aber etwas, weil er in öffentlich-rechtlichen #Kultursendungen hin und wieder auftaucht.

Boyle lebt in #Kalifornien, wo - wie wir wissen - in der letzten Zeit reichlich heftige Brände gewütet haben. Das Haus der Familie Boyle ist aus Holz.

In einem kurzen Interview der taz mit ihm beantwortet er die Frage nach Schutzmaßnahmen so:
"Wir tragen unsere Asbestanzüge Tag und Nacht, unsere ganze Familie, einschließlich Hund und Katze."
https://www.taz.de/!6062778

Ganz ehrlich: Ich könnte so nicht leben. Aber wegen der drohenden #Klimakatastrophe nach #Neuseeland umziehen - wie #PeterThiel & Co. - würde ich sicher nicht. #Klimaschutz beginnt da, wo man wohnt.


#Klima #Klimakrise

JULIE CHAN IS DEAD rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

The grass is always greener on the richer side–or so retail worker Julie Chan supposes in the psychological thriller JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang (Simon & Schuster, April 29, 2025). Identical twins Julie and Chloe were orphaned and adopted by different families and separated at a young age. When Julie finds her twin dead in Chloe’s swanky apartment after receiving a cryptic voicemail apology, she decides to step into her twin’s identity and steal her posh influencer life.

Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Simon & Schuster for sending this book to me for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

How hard could it be, Julie thinks, to curate your entire life for the adoring masses? Julie herself has been made into social media content for her sister’s audience, even though she and her sister are estranged. Chloe swooped into Julie’s working class life years ago and gave her a house as a gift–on video. Julie kept the house, but swallowed the bitterness that came with it as her sister soaked up the likes for her opportunistic virtue signaling and went no-contact again.

Now Julie gets payback by taking everything that belongs to Chloe, having her twin cremated to hide any evidence about her mysterious death, but this time she swallows guilt, shame, and curiosity. Was it a straight-up drug overdose (Julie tells the police that it was her who had the overdose, of course) or something more sinister that killed Chloe?

In the guise of Chloe, whose focus is skincare, Julie is suddenly awash in luxury products and designer fashion. Desperate to be liked and accepted, she worries about her weight and starts networking with other beauty influencers, some of whom she has admired since she and Chloe were insecure young girls. She begins to get weird vibes almost immediately. As an Asian influencer, there is tokenism at play; likewise, with the newly recruited Black influencer. The two form an immediate bond on the tenuous edges of the all-white inner circle, buzzing around an influencer Queen Bee, white of course, with stratospheric follower numbers and an “old money” background. Julie ignores all the red flags as she gets in deeper and deeper. These were supposedly Chloe’s best friends, but maybe there is a reason that her twin blocked all of these women before her untimely death. The ending will shock you.

This is Zhang’s debut novel? Hard to believe, with such a tight, nearly flawless writing style.

So why not five stars? Main character Julie’s wonderful narrative voice, dripping with irony and black humor, changes for plot purposes in the middle, and I could not do without that voice. It’s as if Cassandra stopped talking in the middle of I CAPTURE THE CASTLE by Dodie Smith (published in the US by Little, Brown and Co., 1948) and Rose picked up the narrative. I know why the author did it, but for me it didn’t increase the suspense; it dampened it. When Julie got her voice back, it was obvious that the alternative narrative voice had not worked and made the action bog down in the middle. YMMV, and a good audiobook narrator may smooth over this narrative awkwardness. According to Overdrive Marketplace, the audiobook will be released on the same date as the book.

Despite some flaws, this is as thorough, and as devastating a satire of social media influencer culture as you’ll find in fiction.

Reading in context:

How far would you go for likes? In the sci-fi novel GIRLFRIEND ON MARS by Deborah Willis (W. W. Norton & Co, 2023), Amber Kivinen will go to the nearest planet per a billionaire’s dicey scheme after “winning” a reality TV contest. Her long-term boyfriend Kevin would love to stop her, but his stoner lifestyle doesn’t give him enough energy to challenge her effervescent, endorphin-fueled social media addiction–and the potential for abuse that comes with it.

Like this author, T. C. Boyle mocked social media and influencer culture with oodles of irony in BLUE SKIES (Liverlight/W. W. Norton, 2023), reviewed in a former blog. I’ve thought about that book a lot in the past week. Very prophetic.

I was also reminded of YOUTHJUICE by E.K. Sathue due to the themes of skin care, social media, violence, and the slow seduction of those who long to fit in. There are other parallels too, but no spoilers. Reviewed on April 9, 2024.

What I’m reading right now:

FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros, to be followed immediately by IRON FLAME (Entangled/Red Tower/Macmillan, May and September 2023). I know, I’m late to the party, but at least when ONYX STORM hits (January 21, 2025) I will not have forgotten the names of everybody but the dragons. I always remember the dragons’ names for some reason.

#JulieChanIsDead #LiannZhang #mystery #socialmedia #influencers #socialmedia #blackhumor #thriller #ICaptureTheCastle #DodieSmith #TCBoyle #BlueSkies #youthjuice #eksathue #racism

https://jillsreads.com/julie-chan-is-dead/

#BlackHumor #BlueSkies #DodieSmith #EKSathue #ICaptureTheCastle #influencers #JulieChanIsDead #LiannZhang #mystery #racism #SocialMedia #TCBoyle #thriller #youthjuice

Julie Chan is Dead

JULIE CHAN IS DEAD rating: four stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐.

The grass is always greener on the richer side–or so retail worker Julie Chan supposes in the psychological thriller JULIE CHAN IS DEAD by Liann Zhang (Simon & Schuster, April 29, 2025). Identical twins Julie and Chloe were orphaned and adopted by different families and separated at a young age. When Julie finds her twin dead in Chloe’s swanky apartment after receiving a cryptic voicemail apology, she decides to step into her twin’s identity and steal her posh influencer life.

Thanks to Edelweiss Plus Above the Treeline and Simon & Schuster for sending this book to me for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

How hard could it be, Julie thinks, to curate your entire life for the adoring masses? Julie herself has been made into social media content for her sister’s audience, even though she and her sister are estranged. Chloe swooped into Julie’s working class life years ago and gave her a house as a gift–on video. Julie kept the house, but swallowed the bitterness that came with it as her sister soaked up the likes for her opportunistic virtue signaling and went no-contact again.

Now Julie gets payback by taking everything that belongs to Chloe, having her twin cremated to hide any evidence about her mysterious death, but this time she swallows guilt, shame, and curiosity. Was it a straight-up drug overdose (Julie tells the police that it was her who had the overdose, of course) or something more sinister that killed Chloe?

In the guise of Chloe, whose focus is skincare, Julie is suddenly awash in luxury products and designer fashion. Desperate to be liked and accepted, she worries about her weight and starts networking with other beauty influencers, some of whom she has admired since she and Chloe were insecure young girls. She begins to get weird vibes almost immediately. As an Asian influencer, there is tokenism at play; likewise, with the newly recruited Black influencer. The two form an immediate bond on the tenuous edges of the all-white inner circle, buzzing around an influencer Queen Bee, white of course, with stratospheric follower numbers and an “old money” background. Julie ignores all the red flags as she gets in deeper and deeper. These were supposedly Chloe’s best friends, but maybe there is a reason that her twin blocked all of these women before her untimely death. The ending will shock you.

This is Zhang’s debut novel? Hard to believe, with such a tight, nearly flawless writing style.

So why not five stars? Main character Julie’s wonderful narrative voice, dripping with irony and black humor, changes for plot purposes in the middle, and I could not do without that voice. It’s as if Cassandra stopped talking in the middle of I CAPTURE THE CASTLE by Dodie Smith (published in the US by Little, Brown and Co., 1948) and Rose picked up the narrative. I know why the author did it, but for me it didn’t increase the suspense; it dampened it. When Julie got her voice back, it was obvious that the alternative narrative voice had not worked and made the action bog down in the middle. YMMV, and a good audiobook narrator may smooth over this narrative awkwardness. According to Overdrive Marketplace, the audiobook will be released on the same date as the book.

Despite some flaws, this is as thorough, and as devastating a satire of social media influencer culture as you’ll find in fiction.

Reading in context:

How far would you go for likes? In the sci-fi novel GIRLFRIEND ON MARS by Deborah Willis (W. W. Norton & Co, 2023), Amber Kivinen will go to the nearest planet per a billionaire’s dicey scheme after “winning” a reality TV contest. Her long-term boyfriend Kevin would love to stop her, but his stoner lifestyle doesn’t give him enough energy to challenge her effervescent, endorphin-fueled social media addiction–and the potential for abuse that comes with it.

Like this author, T. C. Boyle mocked social media and influencer culture with oodles of irony in BLUE SKIES (Liverlight/W. W. Norton, 2023), reviewed in a former blog. I’ve thought about that book a lot in the past week. Very prophetic.

I was also reminded of YOUTHJUICE by E.K. Sathue due to the themes of skin care, social media, violence, and the slow seduction of those who long to fit in. There are other parallels too, but no spoilers. Reviewed on April 9, 2024.

What I’m reading right now:

FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros, to be followed immediately by IRON FLAME (Entangled/Red Tower/Macmillan, May and September 2023). I know, I’m late to the party, but at least when ONYX STORM hits (January 21, 2025) I will not have forgotten the names of everybody but the dragons. I always remember the dragons’ names for some reason.

#JulieChanIsDead #LiannZhang #mystery #socialmedia #influencers #socialmedia #blackhumor #thriller #ICaptureTheCastle #DodieSmith #TCBoyle #BlueSkies #youthjuice #eksathue #racism

#BlackHumor #BlueSkies #DodieSmith #EKSathue #ICaptureTheCastle #influencers #JulieChanIsDead #LiannZhang #mystery #racism #SocialMedia #TCBoyle #thriller #youthjuice

Picked up Blue Skies by T. C. Boyle today, about Floridians in the future adapting to "the "new normal" in which once-in-a-lifetime natural disasters happen once a week." Seems highly relevant at the moment.

I've read a couple other books by him and really enjoyed them, so I'm looking forward to digging into this one.

#books #readinglog #TCBoyle #BlueSkies #climatechange

Libros Disponibles en Marzo: Cuentos Incompletos, de T.C. Boyle #novedad #marzo #libros #cuentos #narrativabreve #humor #Impedimenta #TCBoyle

amazon UDL LIBROS

http://booksramblingsandtea.com/2024/03/21/libros-disponibles-en-marzo-cuentos-incompletos-de-t-c-boyle-novedad-marzo-libros-cuentos-narrativabreve-humor-impedimenta-tcboyle/

Ich bin nur noch auf X wegen T. C. Boyle. #x #twitter #tcboyle #author #autor #books #bücher

(1/2) Dystopieromanen gegenüber bin ich skeptisch, wahrscheinlich weil ich das Thema gerne vermeide. Doch #tcboyle extrapoliert kaum über die Gegenwart hinaus, erzählt nahe an den Figuren und ihren Beziehungen und das so gut, teils brilliant,  wie in den Romanen, die ich vor zwanzig Jahren von ihm las.

https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/blue-skies/978-3-446-27689-5/

#Buchbesprechung im Juli: Kann es eine künstliche Welt geben, in der man überleben kann? Einen hermetisch abgeschlossenen Raum, in dem sich Flora & Fauna – einschließlich einiger Menschen – aufhalten können? Nichts rein, nichts raus? In seinem 16. Roman schreibt #TCBoyle über ein Experiment, in dem 4 Frauen und 4 Männer 2 Jahre lang unter einer Glaskuppel (über)leben sollen.

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T. C. Boyle, Die Terranauten, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017

#LiteraturBlogKreis:
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-die-terranauten

#Buchbesprechung im Juli: 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴, seinen allersten Roman hat der US-Schriftsteller #TCBoyle bereits im Jahr 1982 veröffentlicht. Es geht um die Geschichte des schottischen Afrikaentdeckers Mungo Park, der von seiner zweiten Expedition zum Niger um das Jahr 1800 nicht mehr zurückkehrte. – Eine atemberaubende Erzählung & die Blaupause für viele andere Romane des Autors.

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T. C. Boyle, Wassermusik, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, 1987

#LiterturBlogKreis:
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-wassermusik

#Buchbesprechung im Juli: 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴, seinen allersten Roman hat der US-Schriftsteller #TCBoyle bereits im Jahr 1982 veröffentlicht. Es geht um die Geschichte des schottischen Afrikaentdeckers Mungo Park, der von seiner zweiten Expedition zum Niger um das Jahr 1800 nicht mehr zurückkehrte. – Eine atemberaubende Erzählung & die Blaupause für viele andere Romane des Autors.

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T. C. Boyle, Wassermusik, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, 1987

#LiterturBlogKreis:
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-wassermusik

#Buchbesprechung im Juli: 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴, seinen allersten Roman hat der US-Schriftsteller #TCBoyle bereits im Jahr 1982 veröffentlicht. Es geht um die Geschichte des schottischen Afrikaentdeckers Mungo Park, der von seiner zweiten Expedition zum Niger um das Jahr 1800 nicht mehr zurückkehrte. – Eine atemberaubende Erzählung & die Blaupause für viele andere Romane des Autors.

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T. C. Boyle, Wassermusik, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, 1987

#LiterturBlogKreis:
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-wassermusik

#Buchbesprechung im Juli: 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴, seinen allersten Roman hat der US-Schriftsteller #TCBoyle bereits im Jahr 1982 veröffentlicht. Es geht um die Geschichte des schottischen Afrikaentdeckers Mungo Park, der von seiner zweiten Expedition zum Niger um das Jahr 1800 nicht mehr zurückkehrte. – Eine atemberaubende Erzählung & die Blaupause für viele andere Romane des Autors.

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T. C. Boyle, Wassermusik, Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, 1987

#LiterturBlogKreis:
🔗 https://aets.ch/esc-wassermusik

"She tried to count them, because that was what she was here for, but there were just too many."
last sentence of "Blue Skies" by #TCBoyle new on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-5266-5969-9-last-sentence.php
#konzeptkunst #literatur #kunst #gegenwartskunst #conceptualart #literature #art #temporaryart #tcboyle #blueskies

"He didn't have to ask because he already knew the answer, but he asked anyway."
middle sentence of "Blue Skies" by #TCBoyle new on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-5266-5969-9-middle-sentence.php
#konzeptkunst #literatur #kunst #gegenwartskunst #conceptualart #literature #art #temporaryart #tcboyle #blueskies

"They were like jewelry, living jewelry, and she could see herself wearing one wrapped round her shoulders to Bobo's or the Cornerstone and sitting at a sidewalk table while people strolled by and pretended not to notice."
first sentence of "Blue Skies" by #TCBoyle new on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-1-5266-5969-9-first-sentence.php
#konzeptkunst #literatur #kunst #gegenwartskunst #conceptualart #literature #art #temporaryart #tcboyle #blueskies

""I don't know," she said."
middle sentence of "A friend of the earth" by #TCBoyle on #isbnmaschine
https://www.isbn-maschine.de/978-0-141-00205-7-middle-sentence.php

#ImmerWiederSonntags kommt die Erinnerung. Literarische Retro-Empfehlungen zum WE. Heute mit einer kalifornischen Hippiekommune, die versucht, das Leben in die Kälte Alaskas zu verlagern. Hippies treffen auf Trapper. Und wir lernen: Trinke niemals Schnaps im Freien bei extremen Minusgraden ✏️ Drop City, #TCBoyle, #HanserVerlag, 2003
#LiteraturBlogKreis
💥 #Backflash: https://e-script.de/backflash

@albinokid #JamesJoyce #AmyBloom #TCBoyle #JoanDidion #VirginiaWoolf #HarukiMurakami #HilaryMantel Just a few of my favorite authors. Add your own, boost, to find more #readers