![]() ![]() Even his somewhat finicky girlfriend is growing tired of all his ways. Micah exasperates those around him, though he cannot understand their frustration with him. ![]() Everything in his house and in his life has its place and each day is part of a strict cleaning schedule. He's a self-employed techie with a business aptly called 'Tech Hermit'. It's a book about a middle-aged man called Micah Mortimer. A novella, I imagine, though I don't know the exact word count. Redhead by the Side of the Road is a little book with a lot of quiet power. ![]() Well, I don't know if it's because I'm on my way to becoming a boring old person these days, but I have been wholly charmed by both of the two Tyler books I've read as an adult. I remember rolling my eyes, along with my classmates, because we were forced to read something so insufferably boring about everyday people living their lives and interacting with each other. I remember being in my early teens in school and our English teacher making us read Anne Tyler's Digging to America. The only place I went wrong, he writes, was expecting things to be perfect. ![]()
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