I'm on the lookout for great new books. I'll read almost anything, except derivative crap (of any genre). So.. memoir, history, fiction, historical fiction.. whatever. Any good reads lately?
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff. I've been pimping this on the OTs since the summer, but it's a great quasi-historical phantasmagoria of fiction and potboiler and epistolary novel and long literary allusion, just a unique read.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. Intelligent, inventive alternate-reality storytelling in the YA mold, maybe the love child of Neil Gaiman and Carl Jung. Better than that sounds.
Are Men Necessary? Maureen Dowd makes my stomach muscles hurt from laughing. I know she has her detractors, but funny covers a lot of sins in my book.
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Why Europeans and their germs and technology ran roughshod over other cultures, and many tangential ruminations appending thereto. Compelling, well-researched stuff.
@emistijl: I LOVED The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan. Also, The Memory of Running...can't remember who that's by. And I''ll second Chritter on Monsters of Templeton...but I'm a sucker for stories set in Upstate NY and RI.
@emistijl: Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. It was the last novel he ever published. It's s a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. I actually think it's his best novel (the boring Christian stuff isn't as pronounced) and the writing is just beautiful. Protofeminist-y!
@emistijl: I'm reading The Other Hand by Chris Cleave at the moment. I'm almost through it, and it is a really gripping story. It's about two women, and how there lives suddenly get intertwined by a tragic event. Pretty dramatic.
Another book I really liked is In Lucia's Eyes , by Arthur Japin. A historical story, based on facts, but purely fiction. It's about the love of Casanova's life. Everything by Arthur Japin is a good read, in my opinion.
@chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: Oh Monsters of Templeton is seconded by me. It was the only book I picked up this summer where all the interesting characters were women, and it wasn't wanting for them at all. I just finished this book The First Law of Motion by K. R. Moorehead. It's a little woe is me in some parts, but a very gritty and real portrayal of coming apart at the seams. I enjoyed it.
I'm on the lookout for great new books. I'll read almost anything, except derivative crap (of any genre). So.. memoir, history, fiction, historical fiction.. whatever. Any good reads lately?
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@emistijl: Some misc. faves lately:
The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff. I've been pimping this on the OTs since the summer, but it's a great quasi-historical phantasmagoria of fiction and potboiler and epistolary novel and long literary allusion, just a unique read.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. Intelligent, inventive alternate-reality storytelling in the YA mold, maybe the love child of Neil Gaiman and Carl Jung. Better than that sounds.
Are Men Necessary? Maureen Dowd makes my stomach muscles hurt from laughing. I know she has her detractors, but funny covers a lot of sins in my book.
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. Why Europeans and their germs and technology ran roughshod over other cultures, and many tangential ruminations appending thereto. Compelling, well-researched stuff.
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@emistijl: I LOVED The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan. Also, The Memory of Running...can't remember who that's by. And I''ll second Chritter on Monsters of Templeton...but I'm a sucker for stories set in Upstate NY and RI.
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@emistijl: Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. It was the last novel he ever published. It's s a retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. I actually think it's his best novel (the boring Christian stuff isn't as pronounced) and the writing is just beautiful. Protofeminist-y!
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@emistijl: Icelander by Dustin Long. One of my favorites.
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@emistijl: I'm reading The Other Hand by Chris Cleave at the moment. I'm almost through it, and it is a really gripping story. It's about two women, and how there lives suddenly get intertwined by a tragic event. Pretty dramatic.
Another book I really liked is In Lucia's Eyes , by Arthur Japin. A historical story, based on facts, but purely fiction. It's about the love of Casanova's life. Everything by Arthur Japin is a good read, in my opinion.
#groupthink
(Edit comment)@chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: Oh Monsters of Templeton is seconded by me. It was the only book I picked up this summer where all the interesting characters were women, and it wasn't wanting for them at all. I just finished this book The First Law of Motion by K. R. Moorehead. It's a little woe is me in some parts, but a very gritty and real portrayal of coming apart at the seams. I enjoyed it.
#groupthink
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