dorking around with old books for work and reading new(ish) books for fun with strong opinions but an inconsistent rating system | you can find me most places as wynkenhimself including as @wynkenhimself@glammr.us | she/her
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30% complete! sarah has read 12 of 40 books.
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a …
I maybe shouldn’t read books about moms facing empty nests because it’s too real, but I liked the rapport between the two leads and the happy ending of romance and peace with who you are
Maggie is an unapologetically grumpy forty-eight-year-old hermit. But when her college-aged son makes her a …
and some fluff during breaks from the not-fluff; the scene setting of the 50-ish single mom adjusting to her only kid going off to college maybe is hitting a bit too real!
Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans …
reading because my kid read it and liked it; absolutely amazing so far in my very slow read
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West …
I'm a big Tana French fan, and I especially love these last two, in which she really seems to be working through the moral implications of police procedurals when police violence is so omnipresent. Cal's less isolated here and that's only making his life more difficult when it comes time for him to sort out what justice means, and that's what makes this book work.
Can they solve the mother of all murders?
For Alice and her partner Joe, moving …
maybe a bit too madcap at times? but it's a cozy and she's pregnant and there's a commune, so it was fun enough
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life …
oof so many bad choices being made in this book, but also so beautiful to read
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset …
Just realized that since I listed this as one book rather than the 3-in-1 collection it is, it’s going to throw off my reading stats! Lolsobbbbb trying not to count the number of books I read anyway
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset …
Somehow the answer to what to read after devouring the Steerswoman books is a 1920 novel about a 14th-century Norwegian woman 🤷♀️
Actually finished this weeks ago, but have been in denial because it’s the last one but it’s at a cliffhanger! The plot isn’t done!! So close and yet so far!! Still thinking about what makes these books so compelling. It’s the way of thinking about what magic is, absolutely. But it’s also about what community is and what knowledge is and why curiosity is important. Grateful to the friend who recommended these and said to dive in without reading anything about them first.
There was zero chance I wasn’t going to dive straight into this
What can I say, these are still so good, and I am just eating them up. A lot of trauma in this one in ways that I did not anticipate, although that seems redundant because even once I felt like I got the secret of these books, they continue to add layers.
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their …
Definitely not yet at the level of her really great ones, but it’s her first published novel, so fair enough! I think it’s missing the key ingredient of different generations or different classes to really get her kicks in, and there are so so so many jokes about curates. But it’s Barbara Pym and it’s still v good
Harriet and Belinda Bede are middle-aged sisters who have only two things in common: their …
Palette cleanser! Couldn’t decide which Pym to read so made the obvious choice to read them in order of publication. Or possibly composition, haven’t decided yet
