Let’s try: Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, and Cosmos by Carl Sagen. I would like something challenging, with opportunities to learn new things and to feel exhilarated.
I have a request if you have time! It’s not exactly in the format you requested but: a book that has an ending like the Deadly Education series by Naomi Novak, where the love interests do not get a traditional happily ever after. You get the sense that they will be together in the future but for now they go their separate ways to fulfill their own separate goals.
This is my favorite game! I should not be allowed to play, as my stacks are teetering and three books is impossible. However, here's today's answer:
The Goldfinch, The Covenant of Water, The Crimson Petal and the White - big sprawling messes, can't get enough. (Also, Mantel, Ferrante, Morrison, Fellowship Point, omg I'll stop.). Three recent (and very different faves) are short:
The Shame by Makenna Goodman, Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn, Sandwich by Catherine Newman.
I'm in the mood for short indie reads, literary, quotidian - love the domestic. I'd love a (much shorter) female Knausgaard experience.
Thanks for brightening a slate gray Saturday at the end of the world - much appreciated! 💚
The titles of three books I could not live without: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. In the mood for: a great time travel, more epistolary tales, nothing too literary (I love genre fiction). Thanks!
3 books I could not live without.
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Brontë
The Colour Purple- Alice Walker
Eve’s Hollywood- Eve Babitz
This was so hard - I thought of so many books. But this narrows down a type of book I love.
I used to think Fifth Business by Robertson Davies was the perfect novel. Maybe it is
I adore Barbara Comyns I agree she has never gotten her due. I’ve read Their Spoons Came from Woolworth’s about 5 d and all her other books too.
Let’s try: Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, and Cosmos by Carl Sagen. I would like something challenging, with opportunities to learn new things and to feel exhilarated.
I have a request if you have time! It’s not exactly in the format you requested but: a book that has an ending like the Deadly Education series by Naomi Novak, where the love interests do not get a traditional happily ever after. You get the sense that they will be together in the future but for now they go their separate ways to fulfill their own separate goals.
I will try to formulate the needed information. I have read so many great books it is hard to focus on three.
Looking forward to it, John!
Thanks! This is very interesting.
This is my favorite game! I should not be allowed to play, as my stacks are teetering and three books is impossible. However, here's today's answer:
The Goldfinch, The Covenant of Water, The Crimson Petal and the White - big sprawling messes, can't get enough. (Also, Mantel, Ferrante, Morrison, Fellowship Point, omg I'll stop.). Three recent (and very different faves) are short:
The Shame by Makenna Goodman, Dear Edna Sloane by Amy Shearn, Sandwich by Catherine Newman.
I'm in the mood for short indie reads, literary, quotidian - love the domestic. I'd love a (much shorter) female Knausgaard experience.
Thanks for brightening a slate gray Saturday at the end of the world - much appreciated! 💚
Thanks so much, Lisa. I'll add you to the list!
This is so so cool! My tbr is over flowing but i will be bookmarking this for later!
The titles of three books I could not live without: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. In the mood for: a great time travel, more epistolary tales, nothing too literary (I love genre fiction). Thanks!
Thanks, Jade! I'll add you to the list!