Bookie Break Redux
Another week of abbreviated bookie thoughts. Back to my normal length next week!
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Hi pals. I’ve been busy watching Miss Marple mysteries and looking longingly at maps of seaside towns. As such, here is another abbreviated newsletter for you; I’ll be back to my usual length next Sunday.
This week, I made my way through a number of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories and The Old Man and the Sea for a family book club (which I liked far more than expected). I also finished The Likeness by Tana French, thanks to my poll from a few weeks ago (which I expected to love and TRULY did).
I’m also officially an admin of a Facebook group that’s about to read The Secret History by Donna Tartt together (which half the internet did earlier this year, but I firmly believe that it stands up to a re-read as autumn approaches). Apparently the audiobook is read by Tartt herself, so I may try to get my hands on that this time around. Since The Likeness is always recommended as a book similar to The Secret History, the timing feels particularly right.
For further reading recommendations, Traci Thomas of The Stacks podcast is teaming up with BET+ to pair up books with TV shows; Vulture compiled 9 great books with lonely protagonists earlier this year; and The Strategist asked author Brit Bennett what books she read while writing her critically acclaimed 2020 release, The Vanishing Half.
Have a nice week and don’t miss this story about the £2.5 million in rare books stolen by a Romanian organized crime ring.