I feel I’ve lost my adult life (thus far at 25) to poverty and disability. They’ve increasingly consumed my days, and I’ve consumed less and less fiction over the past 5 years to avoid the alienating subjects of family, friendship, and romance—life, which I haven’t been able to live. I never really saw myself in fiction, but lived vicariously through it until I started to feel like I’d never actually experience life so vividly. Piranesi is the first novel I can remember completely relating to, and it’s helped me think about my life in a new light. I’d like to read other stories about solitary characters (not necessarily lonely ones). I enjoyed (and related to) Convenience Store Woman, and I’d also appreciate more humorous reads about characters who are alone in there experiences.
I’m always open to suggestions for nonfiction and particularly interested in history, the natural sciences, and nonfiction that reads like fiction.
by mascarponeking