I love this!!!!

Oh yeah, that’s also pretty fucking current, huh?

I didn’t see the whole series (I’m super lazy about TV), but what I saw of it was even more restrained than the books - the episode where [SPOILERS]

Her Cromwell books are just excellent literature. Cromwell’s narrative voice is a remarkable achievement.

In The Flint Anchor, the humor is definitely low-key, it’s not at all a comedy. I would say that it’s mostly sad and beautiful. I thought it was fantastic.

Your hot take is the right take.

Hey, if that’s what you like, go for it! Feeling chagrin about your tastes is for the birds.

I always love your recommendations. Snooze sounds awesome, and god knows I could use some perspective in that domain.

I love LeGuin so much.

I’m open to anything genre-wise or period-wise, really, as long as it’s good. But the pile next to my bed is towering, and I just ordered 6 more from Book Depository.

By the way, have you read Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall etc?

Wow, that sounds excellent. I’ve never read Colette, where should I start?

Plenty of post-apocalyptic and dystopian literature one could choose from. Like, say, the news.

We were young, uninformed, and we wanted to have an awesome party and invite all our friends.

Book thread. What are you all reading?

Unrelated to either JF or NK. I’m just finishing a novel by notable badass Sylvia Townsend Warner (The Flint Anchor), and wanted to recommend it - or anything else she wrote - to Jezzies.

I came here to say that I loved Black Cat when I was a kid.

I came here to say that I loved Black Cat when I was a kid.

I recently had a 12 hour flight and my neighbors got up about twice an hour - each. As the aisle seat person, I got no sleep at all.

Completely anecdotal: my kids are easy going and it is perfectly fun to fly with them.