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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3% complete! sarah has read 1 of 26 books.
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in …
Continuing my slow revisiting of things I read for my PhD comps 30 years ago (!!!) it’s now George Eliot’s time. I loved the book then. Will I still now? (Yea, I assume yes)
@quaad Yeah, my recollection from when I did read excerpts is that I couldn’t handle a lot of notes at the same time, so just accepted I was missing a lot in my reading!!
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, …
What a shock to see that midlife menopausal crisis reflected in such startling accuracy and sympathy. Gorgeous and hilarious
@quaad Eons ago I read parts of it for my grad degree comps and the only thing that’s stopped me from finally getting around to it is a ebook edition that feels reliable
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, …
Started reading this at 11:45pm on Dec 31 because I couldn’t bear to have that other book be the end of the year lol
Setting a goal I know I can reach because why crush myself with impossible dreams when the world already wants to do that?!
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too …
This started off as so much fun but then we got to the reveal of the big mystery and NO it just made me angry. I’d do a spoiler alert to explain why but this has already taken up too much space in my brain
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
Calling this as the final book of 2024 and posting my year-of-not-finishing-books blog reflection because it's been that kind of year sarahwerner.net/blog/2024/12/books-i-didnt-finish/
A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too …
sometimes you just read whatever comes off the waitlist that you joined 6 months ago
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
Third-tier Pym, tbh, but even so a good read. (No Fond Return of Love is the best; Quartet in Autumn possibly second best but so much more grim)
This wry comedy of manners—Barbara Pym's seventh novel and the last one she wrote before …
I remembered there were still two Pyms I haven't read yet--the posthumous ones. In the spirit of reading is hard and Pym is great, I'm excited to start this one
Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason …
And that doesn’t even count the drama of the murders. On the other hand, if you need something to devour, this might hit the spot
Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only.
That three innocent people …
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about …
Cozy not like cozy mysteries but like cozy robots. It was very sweet and comforting, if you're someone who worries about how you fit into the world and/or how you are or are not separate from your work. I'm not a fan of the style of writing alas
