Omg I’m in a reading slump and I need a book to fill the void! I just finished Flanders and I'm kind of devastated in the best way. For those who haven't read it: it's a WWI novel told through letters from Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texan sniper serving with the British in the trenches of northern France. It's brutal and unflinching about the horrors of trench warfare, but also deeply intimate and emotional.
Travis himself is a mess in the most human way he leans hard on the bottle to cope with everything around him.
The vibes I'm chasing:
– Literary war fiction that doesn't glorify combat
– A melancholy, introspective atmosphere
– A flawed, deeply human narrator
– Emotional weight over action
Any genre welcome: historical fiction, literary fiction, whatever. What have you got! Here are some books I enjoyed:
In Memoriam by Alice Winn
As Meat loves Salt by Maria McCann
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Please heeeeeelpppp how will I recover from this 😩😩😩
by latiaspikachu1