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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!!
May 13, 2024
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📚last year i knew i was spending 5 weeks studying abroad & could bring a limited number of books with me so in the lead up i went through & created a summer reading list which i pared down to a beautiful 4 physical books & various ebooks… the limited number meant i read them all & challenged me to create a list of criteria which i wanted to check off in my list. for ur own list, consider my considerations:
- one nonfiction & one poetry (anthology so as to keep things interesting & let it last)
- (if travelling) a book taking place in the city ur visiting
- whiplash between each book over some characteristics & a great similarity over others (ie very different voices but similar aged characters/scenarios, similar themes but with different attitudes towards them)
- anthologies/collections are the best move (i read leonard cohen’s the favourite game/beautiful losers which were two novels collected into one book)
Jun 22, 2025
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🦋I can be somewhat flighty with my books (reading based on mood) so usually have an extensive currently-reading pile which I’ll work to finish slowly until they’re due at the library:
Sag harbor, colson whitehead
Indelicacy, Amina Cain
Bad blood, John carreyrou
The other Americans, laila lalami
Fear of flying, Erica jong
Travelers to unimaginable lands, dasha kiper
Once I’ve worked through those, id like to read: james, percival Everett The premonition, banana yoshimoto What are you going through, sigrid nunez
Once I’ve worked through those, id like to read: james, percival Everett The premonition, banana yoshimoto What are you going through, sigrid nunez
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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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🏨Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.