Always excited about Fall books! Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout is high on my list as well as a wonderful historical fiction debut called Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier. Eleanore comes out November 5th, when we might need some literary escapism. It’s a feminist story of a midwife and herbalist in France during the Black Plague.
I’m looking forward to Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf, which comes out in late October. The combination of delicious prose and memorable characters always captures me.
I started reading this series last winter and I love it! I’m so glad I finally got around to her. I had heard good things about Louise Penny but somehow I was Not Prepared.
I am never on top of up-and-coming publications, but I did preorder Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the follow-up to House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. I’m also thinking about preordering the newest Kate Atkinson novel in the Jackson Brodie series. The last few have been disappointing, so I’m nervous to spend the $30. I’m hearing good things, though, and I’m trying to be an Atkinson completist.
I’m excited about Colored Television by Danzy Senna and The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. Mostly because I’ve loved previous works of theirs so I’m hoping these are good too!
I’m looking forward to The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
I loved her first book, Braiding Sweetgrass, which came out all the way back in 2013 but has been sort of a slow-growing favorite I feel like with an ever increasing number of people. She’s a member of the Potawatomi nation and a professor of…botany, I think? In any case she writes nonfiction books that bring both indigenous knowledge and wisdom about the natural world, and formal western scientific thought to bear on the human connection to the natural world and what our responsibilities are to it. Spending time in nature has been important to my mental, physical and emotional wellbeing and Kimmerer’s books have helped me think about that connection in a different way, which has been helpful to me. (I’m also just the kind of person who likes audiobooks about trees and birds lol. I think when you turn 40 it activates a sleeper cell in the brain of middle class white ladies and suddenly you find yourself with a bird feeder and a gardening hat.)
Also, interestingly, I came across the serviceberry recently on a list of indigenous species to include in landscaping as alternatives to invasive species, so I’m really interested to see what Kimmerer will teach me about the serviceberry, and what the serviceberry can teach me about living in mutual reciprocity with other humans and with nature.
Yes!! I love her. I read Gathering Moss last year by her and I have never looked at moss the same. Now every time I see it, I’m in awe of their own little ecosystem. She really has a way of getting you to actually see the natural world.
Always excited about Fall books! Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout is high on my list as well as a wonderful historical fiction debut called Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier. Eleanore comes out November 5th, when we might need some literary escapism. It’s a feminist story of a midwife and herbalist in France during the Black Plague.
I am so excited for Danzy Senna's new book, Colored Television!
THE POOP RULE is so amusing and perfect. I need to do a major house tidy soon and I will absolutely be using this.
hahaha OH GOOD
I’m looking forward to Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf, which comes out in late October. The combination of delicious prose and memorable characters always captures me.
I started reading this series last winter and I love it! I’m so glad I finally got around to her. I had heard good things about Louise Penny but somehow I was Not Prepared.
I am never on top of up-and-coming publications, but I did preorder Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the follow-up to House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. I’m also thinking about preordering the newest Kate Atkinson novel in the Jackson Brodie series. The last few have been disappointing, so I’m nervous to spend the $30. I’m hearing good things, though, and I’m trying to be an Atkinson completist.
I’m excited about Colored Television by Danzy Senna and The Life Impossible by Matt Haig. Mostly because I’ve loved previous works of theirs so I’m hoping these are good too!
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney!!
Alam Fumaan, Entitlement
Jami Attenberg, A Reason to See You Again
Louise Erdrich, The Mighty Red
Oops. Rumaan Alam
Death at the Sign of the Rook, Kate Atkinson’s newest Jackson Brodie mystery!
Ah, so many!!
Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte
Private Rites by Julia Armsfield
Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
and especially most of all LIFE FORM by JENNY SLATE!!!
I’m looking forward to The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
I loved her first book, Braiding Sweetgrass, which came out all the way back in 2013 but has been sort of a slow-growing favorite I feel like with an ever increasing number of people. She’s a member of the Potawatomi nation and a professor of…botany, I think? In any case she writes nonfiction books that bring both indigenous knowledge and wisdom about the natural world, and formal western scientific thought to bear on the human connection to the natural world and what our responsibilities are to it. Spending time in nature has been important to my mental, physical and emotional wellbeing and Kimmerer’s books have helped me think about that connection in a different way, which has been helpful to me. (I’m also just the kind of person who likes audiobooks about trees and birds lol. I think when you turn 40 it activates a sleeper cell in the brain of middle class white ladies and suddenly you find yourself with a bird feeder and a gardening hat.)
Also, interestingly, I came across the serviceberry recently on a list of indigenous species to include in landscaping as alternatives to invasive species, so I’m really interested to see what Kimmerer will teach me about the serviceberry, and what the serviceberry can teach me about living in mutual reciprocity with other humans and with nature.
Yes!! I love her. I read Gathering Moss last year by her and I have never looked at moss the same. Now every time I see it, I’m in awe of their own little ecosystem. She really has a way of getting you to actually see the natural world.