Exactly what the title says, I'm down horrendous for this woman and I want to annotate a book for her for Valentine's Day. We're both big readers and swap books back and forth a lot.
She's read all the classics and enjoys things that are dense, dark, absurd, or all of the above. Her favorite authors include Mikhail Bulgakov, Tom Robbins, Italo Calvino, Dostoevsky, Sylvia Plath, and David Ives.
To give you an idea of what I'm looking for, my first thought is Adverbs by Daniel Handler (my favorite romance, if it can be considered such) or War of the Foxes, but I've already gifted her a copy of the former and she's read the latter on her own.
I'd ideally like to get her a poetry collection, or something that could be interpreted as romantic without being a straight-up romance novel (neither of us are big fans of the genre or its tropes.) Any ideas? Anything not actually gifted to her will definitely be filed away for next time!
by SunstruckSeraph
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I run an indie press and our debut novel is a romance but not trope-y, spicy, or mushy. The book is A Million Tomorrows by Kris Middaugh.
Try this: check it out on Kindle Unlimited for free (if you can) and if you think it might work, you can order the paperback version from Amazon (and B&N now I think?).
If you don’t think it’s your jam, hit me back and I’ll suggest a great poetry collection for you.
And if y’all DO read it and dig it, just tell some folks. Cheers, man!