chaotic reading habits, book snobs, and lit degrees: a big nerdy book chat (ft @Noelle Gallagher) ad

My thoughts on A Little Life are complicated because I think it is an excellent book and the writing is absolutely stunning, but I don't love the rate at which it's recommended to everyone.

I'm going to say A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood because it's the book that I wrote my dissertation on. So I am biased. However, I think it's a really interesting narrative about one person's life.

I've only read Bleak House and I'm not excited for anything else. So, just skip it.

I recently listened to an audio book of Educated by Tara Westover and it wasn't narrated by her. It was narrated by a man. And I felt like there was some just weird disconnect there because I felt like I didn't properly get the message of the book because of who it was narrated by.

Girl, Woman, Other is another example of a really diverse book that introduces you to so many different people within society.

In Cold Blood is so fascinating because he wrote it about someone who was a murderer, but he also had a very deeply personal relationship with the person who was the murderer.

Macbeth is probably my favorite. that was my that's one of my first ones, and I was like oh, there can be something like ghostly and creepy. This is fun.

Stephen Fry has a book called Mythos where he basically tells those same stories, but in a really accessible way.

But it's a really great book and it has a really awesome empowered female central protagonist. So that's a recommendation from us both.

My favorite audio book that I've ever listened to was Slaughterhouse Five, but narrated by James Franco. And it just elevated that book to a new level.

Oh what a book! It'll wreck you. And I think so many people are intimidated by it because it's Greek mythology, but it's so accessible and it's so beautiful.

I actually read The Vanishing Half and Song of Achilles right at the beginning of the year. And I loved both of those books a lot.

I'm currently reading Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty. It's nonfiction, and it's kind of like self-help and it's quite intriguing.

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh is a masterpiece that I wish I'd had the idea.