January Book Haul ☕️📖

The books I bought in January ☕️📖
book haul:
The Office of Historical Corrections
Disappearing Moon Cafe
Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Anita Brookner
The Scarlet Letter
A Grief Observed - C. S. Lewis
Underpainter- Jane Urquhart
Severance - Ling Ma
Three Plays- Anton Chekhov
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[@hasteyebooks]

Sorry to hear about all the grief you're dealing with. It can be very tough, so sending big hugs. The underpainter sounds so interesting! Disappearing moon cafe was on my tbr, but I keep forgetting what it's even about haha. I love you reading the first few lines haha good hooks!

[@KierTheScrivener]

Thank you 🥰🥰 It's a complicated intergenerational story, that's all you need to know.

[@awanderingmind]

I recently got severance as well! I was intimidated by this book but I’m ready to read it

[@KierTheScrivener]

I never checked the synopsis because it's so popular and then went to talk about and was like, wait . . . I don't know anything about it. I thought it was translated, but she's from Kansas. Is there anything that specifically that intimidates you?

[@awanderingmind]

@@KierTheScrivenerI just heard that it’s about a pandemic and I didn’t want to read about that right after a real one started

[@KierTheScrivener]

Makes sense

[@cr1197]

Thoreau was somebody I expected to like a lot more, from all I'd heard about him and his work, but I was disappointed in. Dude made such a big deal about living alone, a quick walk from town that he visited often. Went to prison for like a week before he was bailed out and wrote a whole dissertation about how noble he was for it. It's probably unfair but I came to associate him with certain individuals these days who tell you to work harder from their cushy inherited homes and jobs at dad's company after their free ride to a party college lol. Really his philosophies as a whole struck me as... underdeveloped? Juvenile? Untested. CS Lewis is on my list to try again, but I never liked his work much. I'm not religious and even less interested in apologetics. Though I hear I'd like Screwtape, and I do like his style. Getting new books is such a treat! I get most of mine used too so whenever I splurge for a new copy I always go overboard for nice copies and relish the fresh pages 😊

[@KierTheScrivener]

Yeah, you hit Thoreau on the head. I have not read a ton of Lewis' nonfiction, I've read Narnia, his Space Trilogy, the Problem of Pain and working on Mere Christianity. I am religious so I can't give the best advice from a secular view but I know he has a fair amount of academic work about literature/mythology that you may find interesting. His religious/ fiction writing was kinda his hobby on the side and he was known mostly as an academic in his lifetime. Mere Christianity could also be interesting to some who are interested in Christianity as anthropology as Lewis was an atheist for most of his life and then he became a Christian in his mid thirties through late night talks with Tolkien (who was Catholic) and Mere Christianity an outpouring of Lewis deciding which part of Christianity he would join (Catholic, Anglician, any of the many Protestant denominations, etc) and he highlights what is unitified to all groups. This might be very boring or very interesting depending on your bent. Thank you for your comment!