Recommend me something to read

[conuly]

Ideally something I can get through the NYPL or the Queens Public Library (I haven't yet re-upped my Brooklyn Public Library card. I ought to go do that this weekend or the week after.)

I suppose I should set a good example and rec something to all of you first. Lemme see....

I did recently enjoy both Long Live Evil and How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying!

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I laughed a bit more than this joke deserves

I just looked up this poem again, so here it is

Dutch museum to display 200-year-old condom probably made from sheep’s appendix featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen

Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s

Japanese Scientists Develop Artificial Blood Compatible With All Blood Types

When People Hear Voices, But Only When They Want To

“They say that all women have the same apprehension”: Anxiety and Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Pregnancy (This historical woman's family seems to have been pretty callous, I gotta say)

Caring Across Distance, One Call at a Time

Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights

The true cost of prisons and jails is higher than many realize, researchers say

Trump voters call president's pardon of corrupt Virginia sheriff 'a terrific mistake'

Immigration official defends tactics against criticism of a heavy hand as arrests rise nationwide

FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say

Flamethrower attack in Colorado leaves eight injured at Israeli hostages rally

Senator Dismisses Medicaid Cuts Killing People: ‘Well, We're All Going to Die'

Ukraine’s Warning to the World’s Other Military Forces

Comments

[magid]

No idea what types of books you like to read; these are some of my favorites:
Word by Word (Kory Stamper), nonfiction, about writing dictionaries
Last Days of Summer (Steve Kluger), epistolary fiction during WWII in NYC (I love this despite there being so much baseball, which I have no interest at all)
The City, Not Long After (Pat Murphy), SF in SFO (Also, pretty much anything else by her)
Sunshine (Robin McKinley), baking and vampires (I don’t love the vampire genre in general, but love this; warning that there is no recipe section at the back, no matter how many times I reread it)
Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman), essays about books, the owning and reading of them, and language
Home Cooking (Laurie Colwin), essays about food and cooking by home cooks, from 1990s NYC

Let me know if any of these are hits or misses, and I’ll happily suggest others.

[conuly]

Oh, I'll read almost anything.

Though, weirdly, Sunshine is about the only McKinley I just could never get into. Kept bouncing off it hard, eventually gave up and DNF'd.

[larryhammer]

Some McKinley books are like that, and which are bouncers shifts from person to person.