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[threeplusfire]

I'm on book #53 for the year. This ravenous consumption of novels reminds me of being ten, twelve years old. When I knew I had to read everything because I would never have enough time for all the live I ought to live, that my body was a betrayal, that there were so many things I didn't know.

If you've read anything really good recently, I'd love to know. I like good novels and niche histories and biographies.

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I've been reading a mixture of trash and literature. Some fiction recs:

Goodbye to Berlin, Down there on a Visit, Prater Violet - Isherwood
Dark Angel - Karleen Koen
The Power and the Glory - Greene
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Bell Jar - Plath
The Young Sherlock Holmes novels by oh god Andrew something. I can't remember his last name.
The Vesuvius Club, Black Butterfly, and The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss

I haven't read a lot of nonfiction but I really loved The Beautiful Fall, parallelling Yves St. Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Can't remember the author, sorry.