I think reading the entire Neapolitan quartet by elena ferrante is the perfect way to spend three weeks by the beach
otherwise I’d try to get thru something long thats been on my reading list but is outside my usual tread. I’m thinking anna karenina. the Fifth season by nk jemisin. (I only occasionally read sci fi). moby dick. Someone else just recommended american gods which I listened to while driving to Maine once and I think would also be good in this category.
Another option is really traditional detective stories, especially by a really prolific author—Agatha christie or someone like that.
Lastly, I once lent my friend my copy of 100 years of solitude which she read on vacation and said was perfect.
i hope this is helpful even though it’s sort of broad!!
May 13, 2024
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I can be somewhat flighty with my books (reading based on mood) so usually have an extensive currently-reading pile which I’ll work to finish slowly until they’re due at the library:
Sag harbor, colson whitehead
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Bad blood, John carreyrou
The other Americans, laila lalami
Fear of flying, Erica jong
Travelers to unimaginable lands, dasha kiper
Once I’ve worked through those, id like to read:
james, percival Everett
The premonition, banana yoshimoto
What are you going through, sigrid nunez
Sep 25, 2024
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since I haven’t read all the books on your list (but noting them for my own!)
some options (some more, some less) along these lines:
You too can have a body like mine, Alexandra kleeman
Treasure island!!!, sara Levine
The new me, Halle butler
The hole, hiroko oyamada
Play it as it lays, Joan didion
The faces, Tove ditlevsen
Eileen, otessa moshfegh (preferred this to my year of r&r, personally)
The flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
Queenie, Candice carty-Williams
the quick and the dead, joy Williams
Apr 15, 2024
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oh you’ve come to the right place mama!!
going off the fact that you watch gilmore girls i’m gonna assume several wonderful things ab you and rec accordingly:
short stories or memoir-like - great to dip in and out of but impactful enough to hold ur interest. love unaccustomed earth & the lowland by jhumpa lahiri, anything by david sedaris, anything by sheila heti (motherhood and how should a person be are faves), just kids by patti smith. the first books i ever truly loved were white oleander by janet finch and the glass castle by jeanette walls
family drama (less quick) - hate to rec a little life by hanya yanagihara but it‘ll keep you off your phone! also loved pachinko by min jin lee, hello beautiful by ann napolitano, and my brilliant friend series by elena ferrante
some great and gripping fiction: come and get it by kiley reid, now is not the time to panic by kevin wilson, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin, writers and lovers by lily king
TWO ye olde recs: little women and the picture of dorian gray :))))
Mar 7, 2024
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Jun 15, 2024
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Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.
Oct 21, 2024
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The context may be different but no emotion is completely new— i can cope
Aug 1, 2024