Finally Friday - Trust by Hernan Diaz

 Trust by  Hernan Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in  2022.  It is certainly well written, but easy to put  down.  I didn't  really care for the  main characters and I kinda wanted to  slap some sense into them.  The overall themes and connected narratives were impressive. Kudos to  Diaz. 

1920s New York City - Benjamin Rask is a Wall Street tycoon. Helen Rask is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together they are at the top of  the  game.  But it's  the usual - money does not buy happiness. 

A  novel  appears in 1937 called Bonds and it strikes a nerve with Rask. How dare this author delve into the most personal of stories. 

back blurb - Trust  engages  the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with  which power can manipulate facts. 

P: Pulitzer, Purple, Poetry, and Puff Adder

P: Pulitzer Prize - I was shocked, shocked that the Pulitzer board did not award a Fiction Prize this year. What? My Zoo World by Joanne Faries....c'mon, not a winner? not even nominated? What's this world coming to?

Purple - great color and what better book to read than Harold and the Purple Crayon? Now that's a classic.

Poetry - To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too - Walt Whitman

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps ... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in - Dylan Thomas

an original poem:
Tools to Trade

nefarious needle nose pliers
defy manipulation
like wielding chop sticks
clumsy hands contort

hammer never hits the nail
random finger mashed
polka dotted wall signals
unlevel level usage

left-handed skill set
never garnered praise
proof in writing
blue inked smear

Poison P -Puff adder. This venomous snake warns by inflating its body and hissing loudly. It will stand its ground and not flee. Rudyard Kipling books encountered the puff's cousin - the saw scaled viper in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.