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Stoner

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

Stoner portrays the life of William Stoner, from a young man and student to a professor in Literature. The book portrays the small things and trivial conflicts and relationships in life.

🎨 Impressions

The book is gripping in its triviality. It portrays the small conflicts between people extremely well. It is a book about a boring person in a boring life with boring decisions and boring conflicts and romances.

I felt happier with my current situation, how the trivialities of life might destroy a person, and how indecision is a destroyer of happiness.

✍️ My Top Quotes

The one you love first, is not the one you love last, and love is not a goal, it is a process where one person attempts to get to know another.

"Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. That’s really all there is, isn’t it?