Ooooh loved this Michelle!! This was SO well timed because I’m going to Waterstones on Friday and I like to go prepared 🤭 Top of my list at the moment is the new Gillian McAlister book! I’m very into thrillers/crime fiction at the moment which is a little different for me
So excited for you! I'm hoping to do a lil birthday book shopping this weekend, but the ones on my list are a little niche so I think a Bookshop.org order will be my port of call!
love that you mentioned A Magical Girl Retires — i really loved that one! i would also classify it (somewhat) under climate fiction as the magical girls are battling the climate crisis as the book’s official villain. i thought it was so creative!
I love this format! I aspire to become a Murakami completionist, too. Do you have an order/strategy which you follow? I tend to go with what's available at the library or in bookshops. Currently, his novel "South of the Border, West of the Sun" is on my TBR pile.
I started with the Earthsea quartet and swiftly moved onto The Dispossessed, then The Lathe of Heaven. I'd recommend this order as you can be sucked in by her wonderful fantasy writing, then see some of her inner workings with sci-fi. Her ideas are really quite compelling! I also enjoyed The Word for World Is Forest, and read all of these before tackling Space Crone ❤️
I still haven't read any Ursula K. Le Guin! I would love to start Earthsea this year. On a separate note I picked up Lessons in Chemistry the other day and dived in, and I'm looking forward to starting The Man Who Planted Trees. I've got a handful of holds at the library that I'm waiting for. I read Piranesi a couple of weeks ago and ever since have been having the trippiest dreams!
You must! I always see copies of Earthsea in Oxfam Books, as well as on Vinted.
I really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry a few years ago, it's such a pacey, heart-warming read. Hope you like it as much as I did! And Piranesi is suuuch a great one! I've been wanting to reread it for a while, but feel like it's one that's needs 'space' if you know what I mean?
I'm hoping to get to Doctor Sleep in early autumn, unless it's set during a specific time of year in which case I could do that too. Heh, I am SO proud of being a LFL steward. It really brings me so much joy.
I love these kinds of posts! It feels like browsing someone’s library, spotting books we have in common and discovering new ones to add to my mental tbr.
I’ve only read one short story by Ursula K. Le Guin and was planning to start Earthsea as my introduction to her work, but Space Crone sounds so compelling now. I love those themes and hadn’t considered reading her non-fiction before.
I have A Magical Girl Retires for the exact same reasons as you - Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura will always have a special place in my heart 💖 The Spoiled Heart is completely new to me, but it sounds right up my alley - definitely adding it to the list! :)
Thanks so much Amandine! (Really enjoying your Substack and YouTube channel at the moment btw! ☺️ )
I think Earthsea is a great introduction, perhaps followed by The Word for World Is Forest and The Dispossessed, to see where her values and mind is. She is truly such a wonder. I really want to get to more of her work this year.
Ahh I hope we both enjoy A Magical Girl Retires! The edition I have is so pretty, I can't wait to start it next month.
So kind of you to say, I really appreciate it! thank you ☺️ and thanks for the Ursula K. Le Guin recommendations—I look forward to exploring her work. I’ll be keeping an eye out for your next recommendation as you dive deeper into her writing :)
Perhaps I should work towards an author study of her back catalogue! I do find her work so compelling, and her journey as a writer really fascinating. You see her ideas and opinions and view of the world expand as her works develop!
Ooooh loved this Michelle!! This was SO well timed because I’m going to Waterstones on Friday and I like to go prepared 🤭 Top of my list at the moment is the new Gillian McAlister book! I’m very into thrillers/crime fiction at the moment which is a little different for me
Ps unbelievably jealous that you get to snuggle that white ball of fluff omg
He's the very best, honestly ❤️ (hates screens, loves book time!)
So excited for you! I'm hoping to do a lil birthday book shopping this weekend, but the ones on my list are a little niche so I think a Bookshop.org order will be my port of call!
love that you mentioned A Magical Girl Retires — i really loved that one! i would also classify it (somewhat) under climate fiction as the magical girls are battling the climate crisis as the book’s official villain. i thought it was so creative!
I love this format! I aspire to become a Murakami completionist, too. Do you have an order/strategy which you follow? I tend to go with what's available at the library or in bookshops. Currently, his novel "South of the Border, West of the Sun" is on my TBR pile.
Yes love it! Really want to pick up Clarke’s as well. I loved Piranesi.
Thanks Izzy! I can't wait to read Jonathan Norrell in the autumn!
love this!! i'm dying to get into le guin - what should i start with, do you think?
Thank you!
I started with the Earthsea quartet and swiftly moved onto The Dispossessed, then The Lathe of Heaven. I'd recommend this order as you can be sucked in by her wonderful fantasy writing, then see some of her inner workings with sci-fi. Her ideas are really quite compelling! I also enjoyed The Word for World Is Forest, and read all of these before tackling Space Crone ❤️
thank you!! <3
I still haven't read any Ursula K. Le Guin! I would love to start Earthsea this year. On a separate note I picked up Lessons in Chemistry the other day and dived in, and I'm looking forward to starting The Man Who Planted Trees. I've got a handful of holds at the library that I'm waiting for. I read Piranesi a couple of weeks ago and ever since have been having the trippiest dreams!
You must! I always see copies of Earthsea in Oxfam Books, as well as on Vinted.
I really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry a few years ago, it's such a pacey, heart-warming read. Hope you like it as much as I did! And Piranesi is suuuch a great one! I've been wanting to reread it for a while, but feel like it's one that's needs 'space' if you know what I mean?
I love having a nosey at people's TBRs! Thank you for tagging me in this, I've actually got my own physical TBR list that was shared for paid subs a while back if you fancy a read: https://thequiet20s.substack.com/p/every-book-on-my-physical-tbr
Embarrassingly it hasn't actually changed *that* much.
I totally forgot Doctor Sleep was related to The Shining, so I might do a re-read of TS before reading DS at some point.
Lots on here that I'd love to read too, and I adore the fact you organise the Little Library!!!
Running to that post, I am SO nosy!!
I'm hoping to get to Doctor Sleep in early autumn, unless it's set during a specific time of year in which case I could do that too. Heh, I am SO proud of being a LFL steward. It really brings me so much joy.
I love these kinds of posts! It feels like browsing someone’s library, spotting books we have in common and discovering new ones to add to my mental tbr.
I’ve only read one short story by Ursula K. Le Guin and was planning to start Earthsea as my introduction to her work, but Space Crone sounds so compelling now. I love those themes and hadn’t considered reading her non-fiction before.
I have A Magical Girl Retires for the exact same reasons as you - Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura will always have a special place in my heart 💖 The Spoiled Heart is completely new to me, but it sounds right up my alley - definitely adding it to the list! :)
Thanks so much Amandine! (Really enjoying your Substack and YouTube channel at the moment btw! ☺️ )
I think Earthsea is a great introduction, perhaps followed by The Word for World Is Forest and The Dispossessed, to see where her values and mind is. She is truly such a wonder. I really want to get to more of her work this year.
Ahh I hope we both enjoy A Magical Girl Retires! The edition I have is so pretty, I can't wait to start it next month.
So kind of you to say, I really appreciate it! thank you ☺️ and thanks for the Ursula K. Le Guin recommendations—I look forward to exploring her work. I’ll be keeping an eye out for your next recommendation as you dive deeper into her writing :)
Perhaps I should work towards an author study of her back catalogue! I do find her work so compelling, and her journey as a writer really fascinating. You see her ideas and opinions and view of the world expand as her works develop!