Love these picks for autumn 🍂 Entangled life is my favourite non-fiction, it's so interesting. Also I don't think you're ever fully ready for A Little Life but would love a video you reading it. I've picked out some spooky books for October but also some long fantasy books, as it feels cosy to read long books this time of year.
I have picked 12 books that I want to read before the end of the year. Last year I got bogged down with dreary long 'must reads', so this year I have picked mainly recent purchases, which are shorter and a bit lighter. Fingers crossed this strategy works.
Best books of September & August Amy & Isabelle , The Burgess Boys, Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane The English Understand Wool ( excellent short book) The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes The Coast Road by Alan Murrin My Friends by Hisham Matar I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hapman Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
Can I go off on a raving rant over my hatred for A School for Good Mothers? I did think the premise was interesting, but it all felt so flat, the writing was bland, the story was repetitive, and the themes of racism and sexism were handled so shallowly, like they were inserted as tokens. I didn't feel any of the emotion you'd expect to feel from seeing a mother lose her child, only an overall sadness for that child. Did the author want us to side with her? Sympathize with a person who would abandon her toddler for two and a half hours? Feel like it was overstepping for the authorities to get involved? (I mean, she would have been arrested IRL, and would deserve all the judgment placed on her.) I guess after 2 years I’m still bitter. 😂 But I’ll be interested to see what you think! (OTOH, I’m not one of those people who rant over A Little Life. I felt manipulated, but maybe I’m masochistic enough that I’m okay with that?) Right now I’m reading There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, and I’m really enjoying it! Worth a look since you obviously don’t have enough on your plate. 😜
I love the fall tbrs coming out 🍁 Must be so fun to have your first proper autumn in years! I am planning on catching up series over autumn, I have so so many on the go, and I'm really in the mood for fantasy. Summer faves were Boudica by Manda Scott and The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach I think.
Plenty there to keep you busy and out of mischief. Best wishes.
Great video! Love your comfy shirt!❤️
Ooh I loved the Memory Police too!! I didn’t know the author had a new release
Love these picks for autumn 🍂 Entangled life is my favourite non-fiction, it's so interesting. Also I don't think you're ever fully ready for A Little Life but would love a video you reading it.
I've picked out some spooky books for October but also some long fantasy books, as it feels cosy to read long books this time of year.
I love Thrillers in that od little size
I have picked 12 books that I want to read before the end of the year. Last year I got bogged down with dreary long 'must reads', so this year I have picked mainly recent purchases, which are shorter and a bit lighter. Fingers crossed this strategy works.
Best books of September & August
Amy & Isabelle , The Burgess Boys, Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout
Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane
The English Understand Wool ( excellent short book)
The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes
The Coast Road by Alan Murrin
My Friends by Hisham Matar
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Hapman
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
I got halfway through A Little Life and stopped. If you get to the end you’re a braver reader than me.
Question about Tertulia books. Do the books contain remainder marks or any other markings indicating overstock or bargain books? Thanks!
Hope you enjoy the fall reads! I love that Mad Ship cover, I was able to find it in hardback and am obssessed
Can I go off on a raving rant over my hatred for A School for Good Mothers? I did think the premise was interesting, but it all felt so flat, the writing was bland, the story was repetitive, and the themes of racism and sexism were handled so shallowly, like they were inserted as tokens. I didn't feel any of the emotion you'd expect to feel from seeing a mother lose her child, only an overall sadness for that child. Did the author want us to side with her? Sympathize with a person who would abandon her toddler for two and a half hours? Feel like it was overstepping for the authorities to get involved? (I mean, she would have been arrested IRL, and would deserve all the judgment placed on her.)
I guess after 2 years I’m still bitter. 😂 But I’ll be interested to see what you think! (OTOH, I’m not one of those people who rant over A Little Life. I felt manipulated, but maybe I’m masochistic enough that I’m okay with that?)
Right now I’m reading There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, and I’m really enjoying it! Worth a look since you obviously don’t have enough on your plate. 😜
I love the fall tbrs coming out 🍁
Must be so fun to have your first proper autumn in years!
I am planning on catching up series over autumn, I have so so many on the go, and I'm really in the mood for fantasy.
Summer faves were Boudica by Manda Scott and The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach I think.