How did I miss this book blogging event? Oh well, better now than never? Thank you to Joann for bringing to my attention. I needed a post idea. The six tries refers to my trials and tribulations with getting the Block Editor to work the way I want it to. Perhaps, my theme and the editor are incompatible. I did a few iterations…
Choose SIX books from SIX categories:
from Jo at the Book jotter. (Nice to meet you Jo!)
Six new to me authors
Lily King – Euphoria
Louise Gluck – A Village Life
Raven Leilani – Luster
Susanna Clark – Piranesi
Rumann Alam – Leave the World Behind
Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain
Six authors I have read before
Liz Moore – Long Bright River
Yaa Gyasi – Transcendent Kingdom
Brit Bennet – The Vanishing Half
Lydia Millet – A Children’s Bible
Carol Shield – Swann
Hari Kunzu – Red Pill
Six books I have enjoyed (not a ranking! just the first 5 slicers I grabbed from the list)
The Resisters – Gish Jen
The Complete Pie Cookbook – Farm Journal
The Cold Millions – Jess Walter
It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful – Lia Purpura
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin
Jack – Marilynne Robinson
Six books with the best pie mentions (yeeaaaaaahh… the BEST?! oh dear)
Breasts & Eggs – Mieko Kawakami
Memorial – Bryan Washington
The House in the Cerulean Sea – TJ Klune
The Green Mile – Stephen King
Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward
The Resisters – Gish Jen
Six books that took me on extraordinary journeys
Blind Dog – Caroline Levin
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
The Down Days – Ilze Hugo
The Library Book
Proud Shoes
Murderbot – Martha Wells
Six books I must mention that don’t fit nicely into any category
The Green Mile – Stephen King – readalong !!!
Tender is the Flesh – Augustine Bazterrica – TOB!
Stephen Florida -Gabe Habash – OK, this is just INTENSE
Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri – translated from Italian
Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters – trans knowledge fun
Telephone – Percival Everett – can you say, versions?
For my thoughts on any of these novels, please enter title in the search upper right -OR- page through my Books-Done-Read page. Thank you. Thank you for visiting. Have a super-dooper fabulous reading rest-of-the-year!
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Wasn’t that fun?! Looks like your first half reading has been both varied and rewarding… bet you’re the only one with pie mentions as a category! 😉
True that! I have asked people if they thought of me in that pie scene blahblahblabh and no one even realized they read about pie! too funny. The one in Breasts & Eggs was about how pie isn’t a sufficient lunch item. HUH?! (and how could that go unnoticed?)
I hate the Block Editor too. You can compose a post with the classic editor, though, just switch it when you go to write a new post.click the little + sign in the top left corner and select Classic.
Yea, but it is almost as wonky as the Block Editor! 😀
I have Breasts & Eggs on my TBR; I was adding quite a bit of Asian lit to my TBR for a while, especially books by Korea authors. I still haven’t read it, but now I’m looking forward to the pie references.
Awesome! The Tournament of Book discussion for Breasts & Eggs had many fans and just as many not, but it was still a good discussion.
Thank you for joining in and trying to find some pie in the books you have read!
Timing was perfect to try something new and fun! Thanks for the spark.
(there’s not *TRYING* to find pie in books – they tend to jump out at me! :D)