CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Ann Beattie) - March 10/22

 I'm pretty conflicted on this one. On the one hand, it's absolutely a vivid portrait of a fairly memorable figure and Beattie does a superb job of getting into his head. He's such a weird loner that I couldn't help but occasionally relate to him. But on the other hand, the book is really, really long and packed with descriptive passages. And the ending made me scratch my head. But oddly enough, I could see myself re-reading this some day. **1/2 out of ****