Obsessed with Ursula Le Guin lately. Reading No Time To Spare, which is wonderful and is bringing me a lot of joy right now.
finished! this was very good but not in the top tier category of my all time favs as someone suggested - still quite impressive and Shaw has a brilliant career ahead of him
Earthsea was the fantasy series that got me started reading again. Le Guin can have the shortest of books on the grandest of scopes.
So I rly wanted to finish Marzi cause I've taken a few stabs at it but never get far. I just don't think I'm into it. The same person who lent me Maus and Persepolis lent me Marzi and I loved those, but Marzi is more difficult for me for some reason. I may finally have to just move on cause rn I'm not reading at all since I'm slogging. It's not bad, just not pulling me in.
A Little Life is the best novel I’ve finished in years. Highly recommended if you can stomach the heavy content.
Currently in the middle of Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto, a story rich with magical realism elements about a girl reclaiming her forgotten identity after a head injury. Also picked up the new Sylvia Plath novella and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. So excited!
I’m really into that postmodern lit style (George Saunders, Barbara Kingsolver, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Haruki Murakami, older ones like James Joyce and Gabriel Garcia Marquez). If anyone has recs similar to that, please let me know!!
Not sure how exact these are but I enjoy a handful of the authors you mentioned and also enjoy: Don DeLillo Donna Tartt Jeffrey Eugenides Jonathan Franzen T.C. Boyle Jennifer Egan
Cosign the Delilo love as well btw. White Noise was fantastic. I need to get round to Underworld at some point.
Next 2 books to read are The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor and Warlock Holmes book 3 by G.S. Denning And yes I like initials