Must read Twice Lost - God that looks fascinating. What great suggestions. I wasn't the best at collections as a kid. I seemed to keep skipping around!! Undisciplined in all things. Great post.
Possibly - I am AMAZED by your reading churnout /turnout. Loved thinking about how you just disappear into books (sometimes I do, but not as much lately - can't seem to disappear into Middlemarch right now!)
I had a Victorian novel course in graduate school and we had to read 400-600 page novels in a week. I couldn’t do it. But also the pressure. I think we had two weeks for Middlemarch or maybe it was Vanity Fair. I loved both of those books but it took a while to get into them and then it’s kinda a soap opera lol.
Ahhh I just bought Office Politics last month and I can’t wait to read it! Now I want to read all the others on your list, too.
I love this theory and want to keep talking about it — the books that don’t conform to expectations, the readers that don’t want the books that conform to expectations… I am this reader, I write these books. There are more of us out here than one might think…
Cosigning all of this, bisexually
Thank you Erin. Also that’s a perfect sentence.
This is so good and I'm sorry I am hoarding so many of your books! But not actually THAT sorry.
Also yes to starting a press and also yes to Ian's movie!
It’s good that you have them! It keeps me from getting too obsessive about my collection lol.
Must read Twice Lost - God that looks fascinating. What great suggestions. I wasn't the best at collections as a kid. I seemed to keep skipping around!! Undisciplined in all things. Great post.
Thanks for reading. Twice Lost was really great! Skipping around may be more fun than collecting!
Possibly - I am AMAZED by your reading churnout /turnout. Loved thinking about how you just disappear into books (sometimes I do, but not as much lately - can't seem to disappear into Middlemarch right now!)
I had a Victorian novel course in graduate school and we had to read 400-600 page novels in a week. I couldn’t do it. But also the pressure. I think we had two weeks for Middlemarch or maybe it was Vanity Fair. I loved both of those books but it took a while to get into them and then it’s kinda a soap opera lol.
Middlemarch is finally starting to ramp up a bit. The Causabons are back from their honeymoon. Victorian novel a week is a taller order!
Ahhh I just bought Office Politics last month and I can’t wait to read it! Now I want to read all the others on your list, too.
I love this theory and want to keep talking about it — the books that don’t conform to expectations, the readers that don’t want the books that conform to expectations… I am this reader, I write these books. There are more of us out here than one might think…
Oh we should talk Office Politics once you finish. Yes, I think there are lots of us!
I don’t want the books that conform to expectations either. You definitely are writing those books! 🩷🩷🩷
Oliver Twist
Super Fudge
Old Yeller
Yes! I was crazy for Superfudge!