thank you for the tag @curameleven (whose own much more cultured book list is filling my 'to reads' posthaste). i've been reading fewer books than i used to, so this feels like a needed kick in the teeth
the last book I read: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. delighted by its magical realism and prose and weaving of myth into the personal. dreamy yet grounded and I have to read more Morrison…. what harm did i do you on my knees..?
a book I'd recommend: Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. lost innocence… soft spot for me always because i read it with my mother as a kid and then again in high school french class, and even that couldn't suck my love out of it. cuts me open in new ways every re-read.
a book I couldn't put down: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. Mostly because when i first read it i couldn't understand anything which is when a book is at its most interesting to me.
a book I've read twice or more: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx. poignant and hopeless and gay, which does do it for me. if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
a book on my tbr: never ending tbr.. of ones i've added recently: Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, Foam of the Daze, Sex or the Unbearable.
a book I've put down: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez due to attention limits and busyness but i will be back. books do find their way to you at the perfect times.
book on my wishlist: more a book i wish would get written… The Winds of Winter… not holding out any hope though. I don't mind an unfinished story and some of my favourite works online are wips
a favourite book from childhood: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. kind of perfectly devastating. also Tales of the Brothers Grimm which i would read as a bed time story and definitely contributed to my unquenchable morbidity.
a book I'd give to a friend: this is so dependent on the friend lol. I used to love Normal People but re-read it this year and wasn't particularly charmed. Maybe need someone else to read it and then discuss it with me to realize why its impact evaporated. So i'd force it on a friend.
a book of poetry or lyrics that I own: Haiku Inspirations by Tom Lowenstein (though i wish it had less commentary and more haikus…).
a non-fiction book that I own: We Breed Lions by Rick Westhead
what i'm currently reading: Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy. saw this quote and had to "you'll find that people who have the most to say about their great appetite for tenderness are really just asking for terror"
what I'm planning on reading next: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
tagging: @murphyatthemagpie @amazonplanet and anyone else who wants to answer so i can steal their recs :)
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