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reading Bottomless Belly Button now... p cool so far!

 

A Head Full... was some fantastic storytelling!

 

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.

 

I've had this on my amazon wish list for a year now. Think this will finally be my next purchase.

 

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!

 

Lincoln in the Bardo is so good!!!! blew through it last year over two snowy days.

 

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

 

William Gaddis
Thomas Pynchon
John Barth
Donald Barthelme

 

literally just started White Noise today!

literally just started White Noise today!

 

DeLillo is the best

 

Cormac McCarthy fits that bill right? Currently in the middle of All The Pretty Horses.

 

Love McCarthy and Eugenides too. Thanks for the list, y’all.

 

Cosign the Delilo love as well btw. White Noise was fantastic. I need to get round to Underworld at some point.

 

Enjoy! One of my absolute favorites.

 

I like James Patterson

 

and I like you Colby

 

Finished Heartland by Sarah Smarsh. Nothing groundbreaking but it’s the anti-Hillbilly Elegy

 

started Pale King today

my head is spinning

had “forgotten” DFW’s magic

 

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

 

Picked up Early Riser and The Three Body Problem. Starting with Three Body Problem.