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Wildest! (Also interested in a couple I *haven't* visited after reading https://fantasticfiction.com/b/nevada-barr/anna-pigeon/: Isle Royale & Dry Tortugas.)
Apr 24, 2024
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🏖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!!
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!!
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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
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
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📓one of my forever favs have read nothing like it / punky techno feminist dystopian
“kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes.”
explores relationships / gender / desire / detachment / sucker punch pop song / wildly clever n devastatingly prophetic
Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun - Jackie Wang “An almanac of extreme girlhood” abolition/underground/biking across countries/accidentally falling into success Not so much a collection of short stories but diary entries, tumblr posts, zine archives, “essays“, poems Contents titles are: The Hard-Femme years / The Punk House Years/The Desert Years/The Getting-My-Shit-Together-Years/
I also remember enjoying Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson!
“kitchen-sink realism, told from the perspective of the one stuck doing the dishes.”
explores relationships / gender / desire / detachment / sucker punch pop song / wildly clever n devastatingly prophetic
Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun - Jackie Wang “An almanac of extreme girlhood” abolition/underground/biking across countries/accidentally falling into success Not so much a collection of short stories but diary entries, tumblr posts, zine archives, “essays“, poems Contents titles are: The Hard-Femme years / The Punk House Years/The Desert Years/The Getting-My-Shit-Together-Years/
I also remember enjoying Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson!
Apr 20, 2024
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🛋https://jonesbo.com/book/macbeth/ Shakespeare didn't work as a Nordic Noir rivalry between biker gangs and corrupt cops.