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[tzznandrew]

In the last 4 weeks I've finished Thackery's Vanity Fair, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Trollope's The Warden, and Dickens' Our Mutual Friend.

I'm not necessarily tied to reading a work of "classic" literature, but I like something that has an audiobook I could take out or listen to on Spotify. I mostly read, but I've been running a lot recently (lost 20 lbs) and like to listen to something that takes my mind off the run.

 

[CTMike]

 

[ZooCougar]

I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Written by a UConn prof and is going to be an HBO series next year.

 

[August_West]

Ive been re reading Tom Robbins it had been decades....


just finished still life with woodpecker and on to jitterbug perfume now....

I was a huge fan of his when I was in my late teens early 20's and devoured them all, very interesting re reading through 50 something year old lenses now. Didnt hit me in the sweet spot like I remembered it doing when younger.

 

[8893]

Educated, by Tara Westover. Excellent book and really compelling audiobook. I've read a lot more than usual in the past year, in part because Educated started me on a kick with renewed passion. I was so into the audiobook and so interested to hear what came next that I found myself making excuses to squeeze in an extra run or workout in the day just to have a chance to listen again. Her chapters are short and each is written with the arc of a short story, so it's very easy to keep going, or to find an easy place to stop. I finished it in less than five days.

The only downside has been that I now find myself comparing every other book to it, and all have come up short, no matter how enjoyable.

It's incredible that it's her first book.