I love the idea of a forgotten book traveling around a city in the back of a taxi cab. This sounds like a great set up for a book all on its own. I love narratives that are loosely knit together, sometimes with similar characters and sometimes with an object that appears again and again. it just up, ends the expectations of and then what happened after that? And I hear what you’re saying about a second half of a book not fulfilling expectations. I just finished Chasing Beauty which is the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and actually in that case the first half of the book before she started building her museum was in my opinion a lot of detail about foreign travel— where they ate who they ate with and other things that struck me as irrelevant to the main story. I feel that a lot of books should be 200 pages, but the demands of the publishing industry dictate otherwise.
Claire, good to hear from you - it seems like years since we last touched. This comment is self-serving - about fave books. My new book might be one of the best - Inside the Mind of an Inventor - about 35 new products I have created since 1967. One of the best is my new https://SignsThatFly.biz - AND I want to be a paid follower and I will join to pay you if you will tell your flock about my new crowdfunding page - https://2ly.link/26Jpr - it is to help me make my first demo of my signs that fly for EXIT Realty agents.
Thanks for sharing. I had not heard of Deborah Levy but it sounds like I need to check her out. I really enjoyed the SILO trilogy by Hugh Howey (I'm a big fan of the show SILO on AppleTV so I decided to listen to the books. So glad I did). https://hughhowey.com/books/
Also, I enjoyed listening to Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson and Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (it is the origin story for Haymitch).
I found it easier to do Stanley Tucci's Taste as an audiobook. Listening to him tell the stories it felt much more like you were sitting in his living room and he was casually sharing things. His cancer journey was harrowing and there's a cameo appearance of someone that made me go, wait...WHAT?
Thank you for this list & rationale; I'm going to bookmark it (see what I did there? 😉). As a voracious reader --both for personal interest and for book clubs, this is helpful. 📖
I love the idea of a forgotten book traveling around a city in the back of a taxi cab. This sounds like a great set up for a book all on its own. I love narratives that are loosely knit together, sometimes with similar characters and sometimes with an object that appears again and again. it just up, ends the expectations of and then what happened after that? And I hear what you’re saying about a second half of a book not fulfilling expectations. I just finished Chasing Beauty which is the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner and actually in that case the first half of the book before she started building her museum was in my opinion a lot of detail about foreign travel— where they ate who they ate with and other things that struck me as irrelevant to the main story. I feel that a lot of books should be 200 pages, but the demands of the publishing industry dictate otherwise.
Haaaa. Looking up Chasing Beauty now!
Claire, good to hear from you - it seems like years since we last touched. This comment is self-serving - about fave books. My new book might be one of the best - Inside the Mind of an Inventor - about 35 new products I have created since 1967. One of the best is my new https://SignsThatFly.biz - AND I want to be a paid follower and I will join to pay you if you will tell your flock about my new crowdfunding page - https://2ly.link/26Jpr - it is to help me make my first demo of my signs that fly for EXIT Realty agents.
Thanks for sharing. I had not heard of Deborah Levy but it sounds like I need to check her out. I really enjoyed the SILO trilogy by Hugh Howey (I'm a big fan of the show SILO on AppleTV so I decided to listen to the books. So glad I did). https://hughhowey.com/books/
Also, I enjoyed listening to Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson and Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (it is the origin story for Haymitch).
Greta recommendation! I’ll check them out!
So many good books! Adding to my TBR list...
I found it easier to do Stanley Tucci's Taste as an audiobook. Listening to him tell the stories it felt much more like you were sitting in his living room and he was casually sharing things. His cancer journey was harrowing and there's a cameo appearance of someone that made me go, wait...WHAT?
Really?! Ok i’ll keep at it!
I discovered Deborah Levy last year on the advice of a friend and devoured everything she wrote with great pleasure!
I know! She’s SO good!!
I’ve got to get reading; then we can talk. Gonna start with D.Levy. Thanks for this. Feel better read already.
Thank you for this list & rationale; I'm going to bookmark it (see what I did there? 😉). As a voracious reader --both for personal interest and for book clubs, this is helpful. 📖