Favorite debut for fiction is the one you so kindly mentioned here - Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age. Nonfiction goes to Lauren Hough. I'm almost through her book of linked essays and wish it were a longer. I'm blown away by the essays, the story she has to tell, and her voice.
Submit a rec to What To Read If: I recommend The end of men by Christina Sweeney-Baird for anyone looking for a fiction about pandemics. And this one is deadly to men!
I love this idea! I'm happy to report I've already crossed off the Debut box and am hoping to complete "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear" on my upcoming camping trip (although, perhaps I shouldn't steep in a book about unfortunate bear-human interactions while I'm fortifying myself in a cloth tent....). (What are people's opinions here on how to power through a book whose content you enjoy but whose author you want to chase up a tree?)
I'm going to drop My Sister, the Serial Killer into my library hold list (now, thanks to you, growing by the week).
For a book by a new to me author I think I'm going to take a cue from Slate's Political Gabfest Cocktail rec - Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever Kindle Edition
by John McWhorter. It appeals to the linguist in me.
my favorite debut novel: Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. It is a coming of age tale set in 1987 New York during the AIDS crisis.
I'll have to look for it! Thanks!
Favorite debut for fiction is the one you so kindly mentioned here - Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age. Nonfiction goes to Lauren Hough. I'm almost through her book of linked essays and wish it were a longer. I'm blown away by the essays, the story she has to tell, and her voice.
Favorite recent debut novel: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. A science-fiction treatment of timeless human questions.
Oooh! Thanks for sharing. I'm trying to read more sci-fi.
Submit a rec to What To Read If: I recommend The end of men by Christina Sweeney-Baird for anyone looking for a fiction about pandemics. And this one is deadly to men!
Do you have any suggestions for the "summer everything changed" box?
I love this idea! I'm happy to report I've already crossed off the Debut box and am hoping to complete "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear" on my upcoming camping trip (although, perhaps I shouldn't steep in a book about unfortunate bear-human interactions while I'm fortifying myself in a cloth tent....). (What are people's opinions here on how to power through a book whose content you enjoy but whose author you want to chase up a tree?)
I'm going to drop My Sister, the Serial Killer into my library hold list (now, thanks to you, growing by the week).
For a book by a new to me author I think I'm going to take a cue from Slate's Political Gabfest Cocktail rec - Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever Kindle Edition
by John McWhorter. It appeals to the linguist in me.
Oooh. Tell me how Nine Nasty Words is.
I (@5klp471) left a message on your Twitter profile. I have this need to read to escape and to laugh.