Well, I didn't expect THAT ending. I liked this book, and thought it was interesting the way your sympathy for the characters changed. Lots of people didn't like it though - see their views here.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton was as bizarre as you might expect from the director of films like Beetlejuice. It was strangely touching in some places and truly horrid in others - and funny at the same time. A tiny, tiny read, ideal for my purposes at this stage in the Book-a-Day.
Day 319; Book 309
'We're cat parents now': Couple finds spicy orange cat at a truck stop, he
claims the truck as his own, so they have no choice but to make him their
purrfect kitty companion
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According to cats, the whole world is theirs. So, even this giant truck and
the couple inside it were his, he just decided to make it official. Now
they're...
13 hours ago