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To climb that gym is it a good idea to have some experience or is it welcoming to someone who’s never done it before?

fuck it lets gooooooooooo

I have single tickets to both shows and life got in the way and now I can’t attend either one. Foo Fighters don’t allow scalped tickets last I checked so I’m going by the honour system now.

If either of these shows interest you dm me. Not looking to rip anyone off. Just going by what I paid for them.

Stoner’s a book I’ve seen plugged in lots of social media posts and when Anthony Jeselnyk picked it for his book of the month for his book club I dove in. I loved it, we all know it’s good, yada yada yada, that’s not what I want to talk about.

I thought one of the great things about it is that it’s told with one perspective, Stoners. I saw a lot of posts trying to villainize Edith. Someone even posted asking if she’s one of the great literary antagonists and I think that line of thinking completely misses the point.

Stoner was not a good husband. He pushed her into marriage at a very young age and she ends up missing a trip to Europe which we later learn really impacted her and it was something she wanted to do. One of my favourite lines in the book was when Stoner had the epiphany of the two things that meant a lot to him were Grace’s impact on his life and that he wants to be a great teacher. Nothing about Edith.

Anthony Jeselnyk brought up the point that he thought she was sexually assaulted by her father. The book never tells you that but little clues might lead to that. When she comes back from her father’s funeral she’s eager to start a new chapter in life which seems to annoy Stoner. She even gets Grace out of the house more socializing which also seems to annoy him.

Lastly the affair. It was really hard for me to paint him as a hero if he was so eager to have one but the books not interested in a divorce or marriage counseling. This book is moving along at a specific clip and it has somewhere to be.

I never felt sorry for Stoner. Is he a hero? Maybe I don’t know. But he had a degree and a lifelong profession in his field of choice. A life long marriage, a daughter, a grandchild and he was a published author. That’s more than most people get. I never felt sorry for him.

I thought this was a simple story about complicated people. I never felt like he was a victim. Every marriage has highs and lows, I felt a lot of sympathy for Edith along the way.

Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts!

I forget when they usually take place. June, July?