#adam haslett

[fatchance]

"On and on, the ordinary noticing of of the unstill mind."

From Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett, 2025.

[dk-thrive]

People don’t want to be loved the way I love them. They get suffocated. It isn’t their fault. But it isn’t mine, either.

― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company, May 3, 2016)

[litsnaps]

[quotessentially]

From Adam Haslett’s Imagine Me Gone

[stonefoxkneesocks]

What a waste a closed heart is.

Mothers and Sons, Adam Haslett

[queerveganbooknerd]

Book 60 of 2025

Gut wrenching and beautiful. This is a great one.

[intrepidgirlreader]

The sound that he’d made, chopping firewood in his driveway, it had grated on Michael. The slow rhythm of the splitting. It had brought Michael up off the couch, to the dining room window, to watch and mutter his curses. Why couldn’t that sound do that again? I thought, in the waking dream of the moment, the unreal state of being still the only one who knew. Why couldn’t that sound summon Michael once more? Needle him, scrape at his ears. Why not? What kind of a person would I be if I didn’t at least try to call him back?

Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett

[barbwritesstuff]

Of Monsters and Mainframes spotted in the wild!

[humdrumhootenanny]

I’ve been reading a lot more this year and trying to branch out a little and actually rate some books.

1. Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fast paced horror, I wish different characters died

2. Smothermoss by Alisa Alering ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Supernatural experiences with the land the grew up on but left me wanting some explanation or connection between experiences

3. Orbital by Samantha Harvey ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Most interesting book without a plot

4. Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(Book club) Hated the characters but enjoyed the story

5. Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio ⭐️⭐️

Wanted to be a full novel but was rushed. Interesting characters though.

6. Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ancient Greek gossip about Hercules without ever giving his side of things. Loved it.

7. I Might be in Trouble by Daniel Aleman ⭐️⭐️

(Book club) Kind of mad I read this. Self insert writer character, flimsy premise, and uninteresting characters.

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2025

Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week! Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.…

[dk-thrive]

I don’t know what most people mean when they use the word love. If they haven’t contorted their lives around a hope sharp enough to bleed them empty, then I think they’re just kidding.

― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company, May 3, 2016)

[libraryleopard]

Ah! It’s a national holiday! (Electric Lit’s first anticipated queer books of the year list dropped, AKA where I find out about loads of good books to read each year)

[memetaped]

you are not a stranger here taken from the 2002 adam haslett book.

it’s a rough place, but it was out of your hands.

you’re tired, dear, under the eyes. you’ve been sleeping poorly.

you want to get high?

make friends with the day, that’s my advice.

you’ve got some kind of moral sickness.

difficult to say. probably not.

it’s like you’ve experienced all this before. the way you don’t talk much, but like you’re thinking something instead, something you’re not saying.

i’m stoned.

just a friend calling.

it’s chamomile. you like chamomile.

you’re such a kidder.

duuude, check this out.

i’ve had a head cold too.

now you’re going to spend the rest of the day in here, you understand? and you have a good long think about what you’ve just done.

tell me about the kings.

garbage. you’re garbage.

terrible place. full of strangers.

we will survive this.

it’s important you don’t get confused. there are coincidences, but it doesn’t mean the world doesn’t make sense.

now, dear, i hope you’ll just help yourself to everything.

it’s a present to you, this door.

you all right in there?

and sometimes you think things when you’re sad.

struck me as a lie.

maybe you should try bending spoons.

glad to hear you’re still out there saving the world.

it’s not help you gave me. it’s not help you gave.

[vulpesevanidum]

"Without thinking, I intertwined my fingers more tightly with [his]. As though I had traveled back into some younger, more trusting self. When he squeezed my hand, I fell into pure nostalgia. The keen memory of a thing I'd never had. A nostalgia for a moment just like this. As if back when I was a teenager and I'd wanted it so achingly bad, I had met a boy and we had fallen in love, and been together in private ecstasy. And as if, at last, I could mourn the loss of that imagined happiness." -Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett