Lonesome dove is a life changer. Rewards your time in a special way. You just have to get past the scene setting 200 pages. Also worth noting that this isn’t the first book in the series but the consensus is you can read this first for sure. Some of the others get brutally dark and borderline horror…
Oh man I’m bummed I missed this, having read 140 books last year I have to throw my favorite book of all time in the ringer— A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. My dad loved this book so much my brother was named after it! Also have such fond memories of reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray all throughout London last summer and gasping so loud at the ending page the person on the tube next to me asked me about the book and I ended up giving them my copy right then and there.
highly rec Cheever’s short story the swimmer to anyone who liked The Guest. I feel like the two protagonists could know each other
Gotta be one of the reasons I loved The Guest so much. The Swimmer movie adaptation with Burt Lancaster is also worth a watch!
Reading lives!
Not really a big novel guy, but I did just cop Giovanni’s room because of the list 🙌🏽
Lonesome dove is a life changer. Rewards your time in a special way. You just have to get past the scene setting 200 pages. Also worth noting that this isn’t the first book in the series but the consensus is you can read this first for sure. Some of the others get brutally dark and borderline horror…
Saving this forever! Might print
Oh man I’m bummed I missed this, having read 140 books last year I have to throw my favorite book of all time in the ringer— A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. My dad loved this book so much my brother was named after it! Also have such fond memories of reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray all throughout London last summer and gasping so loud at the ending page the person on the tube next to me asked me about the book and I ended up giving them my copy right then and there.
Impeccable list and taste from everyone!
I loved reading all of these 😭
Molly 🫡🫡
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And reading Joe Scarborough’s blurb took me right back to every morning of my 20s watching morning Joe and channeling adulthood.