One of the most awesome yet most devastating emotions in the world is that feeling of a book hangover after finishing a truly spectacular book. What's the most recent book you've finished that's left you with one? As for me, I just finished All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, and I'm going to be reeling from it for awhile.
by rmsmithereens
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“I who have Never Known Man”
Didn’t realize I was going to read my book of the year in the first week of February.
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum left me reeling for a solid week after finishing
Pachinko
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
I Who Have Never Known Men. More of a hollowness than a hangover, but it stuck for days.
11/22/63 by Stephen King!
Blood Over Bright Haven
Circe by Madeline Miller
Loved Song of Achilles too, but this one hit me even harder. I’m going to read absolutely anything she puts out.
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson, but mostly from just being exhausted after finishing it.
All the Colours of the Dark left me in a slump too! But my recent hangover is The Bee Sting.
Dungeon Crawler Carl series, still can’t find anything I enjoy half as much, but I keep searching!
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. Spooky, sad and unsettling. I wished it was longer!
The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt. So good I just started over.
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.