A good book

[Anonymous]

I used to read a LOT. Now I’m on DCUM and Insta coupled with WSJ Washington Post and other news outlets. Do you read books? please recommend a book, one that you just couldn’t put down, I’m looking for Fiction or Biography or Well-being

[Anonymous]

Your moms

[Anonymous]

I'm currently reading Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky. He's writing about the hospitality industry. When I finish that I'll be reading The Nurses by Alexandra Robbins.

[Anonymous]

Commonwealth, novel by Ann Patchett.

Hello, Molly, memoir by Molly Shannon

[Anonymous]

Just look at the monthly threads. People post books they’ve read with little summaries.

[Anonymous]

Highly recommend Stolen Focus by Johann Hari. It’s nonfiction about our inability to pay attention. It’s really fascinating.

I also just read The Sun is Also a Star and loved it. It’s YA, but a beautiful story and has bite sized chapters that are good if you’re feeling distracted/trying to get back into the habit of reading.

As someone who’s been in your spot, my suggestion is to put your phone in another room when you sit down to read. That helped me break the pull my phone had on me.

[Anonymous]

I recently read “The Housemaid.”

It was on sale at Walmart & I bought it because it looked decent.

But it turned out to be an awesome read!

Great storyline, flow + surprising, original ending.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[Anonymous]

Do you go to the library OP? often there's shelves of librarian recommendations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently read “The Housemaid.”

It was on sale at Walmart & I bought it because it looked decent.

But it turned out to be an awesome read!

Great storyline, flow + surprising, original ending.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

'+1

[Anonymous]

I've been in a reading funk and saw Claire Keegan's short story, Foster, recommended. It was so good that I went right into reading her newest book, Small Things Like These, which is only 118 pages. Both are set in 1980s Ireland and the language, emotion, and setting really transported me.

Foster (short story) - the oldest daughter of a hardscrabble family with too many kids to care for and another on the way gets sent to live with childless distant relatives for the summer.

Small Things Like These (novella) - working-class father of five daughters feels called to action after witnessing conditions at one of Ireland's Magdalen Laundries (home for teen/unwed mothers).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been in a reading funk and saw Claire Keegan's short story, Foster, recommended. It was so good that I went right into reading her newest book, Small Things Like These, which is only 118 pages. Both are set in 1980s Ireland and the language, emotion, and setting really transported me.

Foster (short story) - the oldest daughter of a hardscrabble family with too many kids to care for and another on the way gets sent to live with childless distant relatives for the summer.

Small Things Like These (novella) - working-class father of five daughters feels called to action after witnessing conditions at one of Ireland's Magdalen Laundries (home for teen/unwed mothers).

Love Claire Foster! Maybe check out Sebastian Barry's new one, Old God's Time.