Andrew Sean Greer – Cannonball Read 17

I just want to find Arthur Less and give him a big hug

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

January 28, 2023 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

When I received a copy of Less is Lost, the follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel I so enjoyed in 2018, I wanted to start reading immediately. But I also wanted to reread Less, to see whether it would still delight me as much as I remembered. I summoned some self-control and started at the beginning, and I’m so glad I did. Less is the story of Arthur Less, a middling author who, to avoid RSVPing to the wedding of his former lover of nine […]

Less really is more

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

December 30, 2020 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

What a fun ride! After my last award winning read turned out to be a letdown (The Space Between), I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Greer’s novel. Less focuses on Arthur Less, a mediocre writer having professional and personal difficulties- his publisher and his long-time boyfriend have both dumped him. As the boyfriend’s wedding to someone else approaches, Arthur panics- he doesn’t want to attend the wedding but he doesn’t want to refuse the invite as it would be admitting that he […]

“Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.”

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

December 27, 2020 by Sophia 1 Comment

I was searching through my local library catalog trying to find a good audiobook for commuter listening when I saw Less (2017) by Andrew Sean Greer. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and backed up with an intriguing blurb, it captured my attention. I quickly downloaded the book and began, but I almost immediately turned it off again. This book was too clever and well-written for simple listening. Although this isn’t my favorite book of the year, I’m glad I found it, and I thought it […]

Belated Bingo – Travel. Less is indeed more.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

December 1, 2019 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

Back in the day, I had a dream that I would excel at CBR Bingo. I did get one bingo, but alas, that was all I could muster in the timeframe. Even though I didn’t blow the doors off the competition, I thoroughly enjoyed planning and plotting my bingo card and thus I’ve decided to read a few more on the ol’ bingo card, even though it only “counts” to me, as it were. I believe I was going to use Less for Rainbow Flag […]

Less is more…. I’m so sorry, I just couldn’t help myself.

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

September 20, 2019 by thewheelbarrow 1 Comment

I saw that Less won the Pulitzer Prize and was available at my library so I checked it out. The award is the ONLY thing I knew about the book when I began reading it. Less is about Andrew Less, a writer about to turn fifty and going through some sort of mid-life crisis. His younger, on again/off again boyfriend is getting married and his book is rejected by his publisher. He uses the opportunity to accept offers that he has to travel the world […]

“This is a war story. It was not meant to be. It started as a love story, the story of a marriage.”

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

September 15, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

CBR11bingo: Rainbow Flag Bingo! Diagonally: Remix, The Collection, Own Voices, Rainbow Flag, Summer Read I decided to read something by Andrew Sean Greer for the Rainbow Flag square on the strength of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Less, which I read and loved last year. The Story of a Marriage is a very different novel, at least in tone. Where Less is sly and sharp and very funny, The Story of a Marriage is just a bit too earnest for its own good. The Story of […]

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