Highly recommend Amor Towles' The Gentleman in Moscow. Clever, kind, beautifully written, it has moved into my top 10. Anything Barbara Kingsoliver writes is up there too.
Just got off a 14 hour flight during which I finished Leave the World Behind, and I’m now a few chapters into Dani Shapiro’s Signal Fires, and totally sucked in.
I am currently juggling a few books and really enjoying all three. In hardcopy: These Precious Days (wonderful essay collection by Ann Patchett) and Eight Hundred Grapes (backlist family drama from Laura Dave). On audio I'm gobbling up the new release All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham, who has become one of my favorite thriller writers, from big picture concepts down to the sentence level. Enjoying and also learning so much from a writing standpoint from all three of these books. Happy weekend, everyone!
It’s me and “All My Puny Sorrows” by Miriam Toews this weekend. I recently discovered her via Catherine Newman’s “We All Want Impossible Things” and wow, their grasp on the funny-sad genre is a master class!
I'm reading Ross Gay's latest essay collection, Inciting Joy, in preparation to hear him read at an online event, Monday. He's also going to be a featured writers at this year's Fall Literary Festival put on by Lit Youngstown (shameless plug!) if you know anyone looking for a fantastic lit conference in Ohio. I'm also reading Cloud Cuckoo Land two years behind everyone else.
It's going to take time, because every sentence in Demon Copperhead makes me stop and ponder. I started reading Barbara Ks book 3 days ago; 5 pages in; long read but worth it. Happy weekend Courtney.
I'm also reading Demon Copperhead but had to veer off to read a comp novel, The Girls by Emma Cline, for my own novel ( with a cult as its premise) about to query. The Girls, with such beautiful writing and introspective detail of a teenager's loneliness conjures up all that old angst in my own body. The writing is gorgeous.
Demon Copperhead is fantastic. Although reading Kingsolver makes me feel like the ultimate inferior writer, she's so damn talented.
Highly recommend Amor Towles' The Gentleman in Moscow. Clever, kind, beautifully written, it has moved into my top 10. Anything Barbara Kingsoliver writes is up there too.
Just got off a 14 hour flight during which I finished Leave the World Behind, and I’m now a few chapters into Dani Shapiro’s Signal Fires, and totally sucked in.
Just about to finish DH. It is quite the ride, holy wow. 😵
I am currently juggling a few books and really enjoying all three. In hardcopy: These Precious Days (wonderful essay collection by Ann Patchett) and Eight Hundred Grapes (backlist family drama from Laura Dave). On audio I'm gobbling up the new release All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham, who has become one of my favorite thriller writers, from big picture concepts down to the sentence level. Enjoying and also learning so much from a writing standpoint from all three of these books. Happy weekend, everyone!
It’s me and “All My Puny Sorrows” by Miriam Toews this weekend. I recently discovered her via Catherine Newman’s “We All Want Impossible Things” and wow, their grasp on the funny-sad genre is a master class!
I'm reading Ross Gay's latest essay collection, Inciting Joy, in preparation to hear him read at an online event, Monday. He's also going to be a featured writers at this year's Fall Literary Festival put on by Lit Youngstown (shameless plug!) if you know anyone looking for a fantastic lit conference in Ohio. I'm also reading Cloud Cuckoo Land two years behind everyone else.
It's going to take time, because every sentence in Demon Copperhead makes me stop and ponder. I started reading Barbara Ks book 3 days ago; 5 pages in; long read but worth it. Happy weekend Courtney.
I'm also reading Demon Copperhead but had to veer off to read a comp novel, The Girls by Emma Cline, for my own novel ( with a cult as its premise) about to query. The Girls, with such beautiful writing and introspective detail of a teenager's loneliness conjures up all that old angst in my own body. The writing is gorgeous.