The Ordinary by Grimsley

I just tried reading The Ordinary by Jim Grimsley, and bounced off it. Is there anyone out there who loved it and would like to tell me why? He has clearly set up a rich and complex world, but the characters didn't grab me and I found his writing style (too many sentence fragments!) clunky and irritating.

Screwy feet

"In all my years of practice, I've only seen this two, now three times," says my foot doctor while looking at my one-year anniversary x-rays of my bunion surgeries. It's always so exciting to be special, isn't it?

When they do the surgery, they put a screw in to hold the bones together while they heal. After the bone has healed, the screw doesn't serve any particular purpose, but generally it's left in there (it's a little extra strength). Some people hate the idea of having a screw in their body and have it taken out. Occasionally people develop an allergy to the metal and need to have it taken out. And very rarely ("two, now three times"), the screw spontaneously backs itself out.

So tomorrow I'm having my screws taken out, since one of them is already bound and determined to come out. I can even feel a little bump where it's pushing up against the skin, now that I know to look.

I've gotten conflicting information on how much this will affect my mobility in the short term (doctor: "Gym? Sure, you can go. It's just a small incision that you'll have a bandage on" vs office manager: "Be sure to bring your surgical sandals, because you'll have big, bulky dressings on your feet and you won't be able to wear regular shoes. Gym? No way!"). Guess I'll find out for sure tomorrow.