“The 17-year-old me who wanted to fall in love with a random boy on our family summer vacation would have loved these books, I’m sure.”
I liked but didn’t love The Summer I Turned Pretty when I read the series a few years ago (I think mainly because I don’t tend to love stories with love triangles) but I relate to this comment of yours so hard. 🤣
I had a single weekend that involved 3 separate commitments and I almost fell apart. Hope you get a moment to slow that cortisol soon. I’m reading Trust by Hernan Diaz and it’s wonderful but definitely not a beach book, so also starting Sea of Tranquility to take with me this weekend. Cheers!
Now that you’ve finished listening to The Great Believers, are you planning to read/listen to Makkai’s recent book I’ve Got Some Questions For You? I read it when it was first published, it’s so different from TGB. And I appreciate your thoughts about the (self-inflicted) stress to read all the summer books...why do we put this unnecessary pressure on ourselves? I just want to read what I want, when I want, regardless of the season!
Oh my, I don’t know! I feel like I need to know how it is or I’ll probably end up reading it. I don’t know it’s like everyone picks up a book and I suddenly feel like I have t picked up enough. It’s silly, really. And same! I want to read what I want to read!
I have been a big reader since I was about eight, and am now assembling a booklet of international fiction and poetry from all over the world. Ive also been a "serious writer since I was twelve and found the short stories off Damon Runyon, known as The Shakespeare of Broadway. He wrote for New York City newspapers, covered sports and gangsters, and came up with a hilarious characters of assorted lowlifes and con artists all of which make for some very entertaining reading indeed, so enchanting in fact that bigwig Broadway produceers turned his stories into the reknowned musical Guys and Dolls, although in real life some of the mobsters were not so entertaining when they were shaking down Mom and Pop stores throughout New York City, includng my home of Brooklyn where our local Good Humor Icee Cream man who come to our housing project and we'd alll lineup and one time I heard our local Good Humor man Joohnny ask my friend Kevin' s dad Larry, " So what you like today, Larry?" and Larry smiled, and said," I'd like one Black Raspbery, and Native Dancer in the fifth." "You got it, my man." Even though I was only ten, I knew that there was no ice cream named Native Dancer, and I also knew what "the fifth" was. BUT IF YOU WANksT SOME TERRIFIC BOOKS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WRITER S WHO ARE TRYING SOME AMAZING NEW WAYS OF, LET ME KNOW BECAUE AT 78 I have decades of reading experiences, from the depths of the Great American Depression books to make granite weep- Tom Kromer's Waitng For Nothing (about homelessness - the book's DEDICATION IS "To Jolene, who turned off the gas", and the more upbeat gem by the legenday champion of wpman's rights- Meridel Le Sueur who was blacklisted during the MCarthy hysteria in the fifties. You can also read some of the funniest books in the world including the Brazilian Jorge
I loved the audio of A Man Called Ove. It felt a little like Remarkably Bright Creatures to me. I just added The Sun Does Shine to my list! Also, kid book you might like that Em showed me: Circle Rolls.
“The 17-year-old me who wanted to fall in love with a random boy on our family summer vacation would have loved these books, I’m sure.”
I liked but didn’t love The Summer I Turned Pretty when I read the series a few years ago (I think mainly because I don’t tend to love stories with love triangles) but I relate to this comment of yours so hard. 🤣
Same, I think the love triangle stuff makes me so uncomfy that it adds cringe to my reading experience, which I don’t enjoy. Ha.
I had a single weekend that involved 3 separate commitments and I almost fell apart. Hope you get a moment to slow that cortisol soon. I’m reading Trust by Hernan Diaz and it’s wonderful but definitely not a beach book, so also starting Sea of Tranquility to take with me this weekend. Cheers!
Yes! I’m holding on till the break comes! Oh I haven’t read either, I’ll have to look them up. Thanks!
Now that you’ve finished listening to The Great Believers, are you planning to read/listen to Makkai’s recent book I’ve Got Some Questions For You? I read it when it was first published, it’s so different from TGB. And I appreciate your thoughts about the (self-inflicted) stress to read all the summer books...why do we put this unnecessary pressure on ourselves? I just want to read what I want, when I want, regardless of the season!
Oh my, I don’t know! I feel like I need to know how it is or I’ll probably end up reading it. I don’t know it’s like everyone picks up a book and I suddenly feel like I have t picked up enough. It’s silly, really. And same! I want to read what I want to read!
I have been a big reader since I was about eight, and am now assembling a booklet of international fiction and poetry from all over the world. Ive also been a "serious writer since I was twelve and found the short stories off Damon Runyon, known as The Shakespeare of Broadway. He wrote for New York City newspapers, covered sports and gangsters, and came up with a hilarious characters of assorted lowlifes and con artists all of which make for some very entertaining reading indeed, so enchanting in fact that bigwig Broadway produceers turned his stories into the reknowned musical Guys and Dolls, although in real life some of the mobsters were not so entertaining when they were shaking down Mom and Pop stores throughout New York City, includng my home of Brooklyn where our local Good Humor Icee Cream man who come to our housing project and we'd alll lineup and one time I heard our local Good Humor man Joohnny ask my friend Kevin' s dad Larry, " So what you like today, Larry?" and Larry smiled, and said," I'd like one Black Raspbery, and Native Dancer in the fifth." "You got it, my man." Even though I was only ten, I knew that there was no ice cream named Native Dancer, and I also knew what "the fifth" was. BUT IF YOU WANksT SOME TERRIFIC BOOKS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WRITER S WHO ARE TRYING SOME AMAZING NEW WAYS OF, LET ME KNOW BECAUE AT 78 I have decades of reading experiences, from the depths of the Great American Depression books to make granite weep- Tom Kromer's Waitng For Nothing (about homelessness - the book's DEDICATION IS "To Jolene, who turned off the gas", and the more upbeat gem by the legenday champion of wpman's rights- Meridel Le Sueur who was blacklisted during the MCarthy hysteria in the fifties. You can also read some of the funniest books in the world including the Brazilian Jorge
I loved the audio of A Man Called Ove. It felt a little like Remarkably Bright Creatures to me. I just added The Sun Does Shine to my list! Also, kid book you might like that Em showed me: Circle Rolls.
Oh interesting!! I’ll have to read Remarkably Bright Creatures right after I finish Ove. And adding that book to my children’s book list! Thanks!