Just Finished Stoner by John Williams!

Stoner from which I was recommended by the wide web that is known as social media, was said to be a very mundane novel, to the extent where it's simply the "everyday" life of an English professor. But to me it was so much more than that, it was a intimate woven story of the complexities of peoples characters, morals, ethics, beliefs, and philosophies. It was truly hard to hate on a character, except perhaps Lomax and Walker, or even Edith, but then again in some regard in my personal opinion there was a lot of depth to their actions and that's what makes it so conflicting to hate on them, because no character is truly so malicious and evil, there's always some complexity within them and that's what makes life not black and white, but a mellow mix of colors. Additionally the way that William wrote about love is so intimate, because love is not simple, you cannot have clear expectations on the feeling of love, and the way he portrayed that through Stoner and Edith, and later Stoner and Katherine, it's just beautiful, thrilling, saddening, and complexing, in every regard. Yeah I used the word complexities, complexing, and complexity, so much in this post, but it's just how life and people are, we are a bundle of threads, colors, and emotions. Thank you social media for introducing Stoner, and thank you John Williams for writing it.