@Alter Ego wrote:
@LoriLori - I know you called me out in the monthly thread, but thought I’d reply here.
Unless I missed it, but I don’t think his post means he will stop writing and I still think there will be a third book in the Beartown trilogy. His wording was so specific in Beartown and Us Against You. I can’t see how the rest of Beartown will fit in, but I fully expect it to be Benji focused anyways.
In a strange way, it makes sense - I can feel his emotions in his books. Like someone said earlier, he puts everything in his words. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be for him, but it also seems like something he has to do.
@Alter Ego I didn't ":call you out," that's a negative and I didn't do that, I I notified you. And in my post I said sorry, you were right, I was wrong, And I put it in the monthly thread because parts of the conversation don't relate to this thread.
I didn't pick up the vibe of a trilogy. It's because personally I felt closure at the end of the Us Against You. I didn't feel there's more story to be told in Beartown -- but if he takes us there I'm iso n.
A book about Benji would not form the third part of a trilogy unless he altered his action at the end of Us Against You. The Swedish woman on Goodreads was specific that it's as you said all along, a trilogy.
Britt-Marie is not book two of My Grandmother nor was it a sequel, it was him pulling out a single character and writing a book about that character. That's what a book about Benji would be.
He will never stop writing, it's who he is, he's a genius at it and he can't stop and he said so. But publishing? He's clear success is part of the problem and making the whole problem worse. So that's another question. He says in the blog post he's been writing but outside of his blog post(s), keeping it secret, not thinking about the publishing part that puts so much pressure on him. How long that lasts, who knows.
We all hope that goes away. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. He doesn't know yet so how could we. If he never publishes again he will have given the people of forty countries a great deal, a chunk of his soul. If he decides to publish again, great but only if it doesn't cost him peace of mind.
To your last paragraph, "In a strange way it makes sense...," I couldn't agree more. You can feel his pain in every book but Ove.
Don't know if you've read his novella "The Deal of a Lifetime." It always made sense and I love it so much, I've read it probably ten times, but it makes soooooooooooo much more sense now.
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