I finished Pachinko (loved it) and have been in a reading rut since. This always happens after a book I really enjoy. I’m feeling so uninspired that even thrillers/sci-fi, which are my go-to palette cleansers, sound so boring to me right now. Suggest me a book (and please provide a brief description) you’ve enjoyed recently but nobody around you has read, or one that isn’t very popular but you’ve been dying to share with somebody. Thanks!
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Your Absence is Darkness. Not sure how to describe it. It follows different people in different time periods. Mostly it’s about them falling in love and the outcomes (consequences) of following your heart? It’s strange and beautiful.
I finished A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life a few weeks ago. I’m not even sure how I heard about it as I haven’t seen anyone talk about it anywhere; it might as well have just appeared in my TBR one day! It’s a collection of essays on gayness, deafness, loneliness, culture, media, the author’s childhood in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and more. It’s hard to explain WHY it resonated with me so much, but I’m so glad I read it.
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, the life story of a slacker kid who gets motivated and leans into the challenge of exploring his (especially) physical limitations – becoming one of the top endurance athletes out there.
The Poison Artist by Jonathon Moore
I ran across this one suggested here for the prompt of obsession. It’s a thriller/ murder mystery about a toxicologist who just broke up with his girlfriend and meets a mysterious bombshell at a bar while helping his friend investigate murders around the city that have to do with men disappearing from those same bars.
Here’s a few:
* The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. The year is 1990, during the Sri Lankan civil war, and a photojournalist wakes up one day to realize he has become a ghost. He doesn’t remember dying and sets out to try to figure out this mystery.
* The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. 44 year old woman is diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, in a world were basically every illness has been cured. A TV network wants her to be a reality TV star. She has her own ideas.
* Back to the Garden by Megan Wykes. Historical fiction set in 1970s Toronto about a talk therapy group. I purchased this directly from a small publishing business in Canada. I’m unsure how easy it is to get ahold of in other countries.