BINGEABLE BOOKS FOR HANDS-ON, FULL-ON DAYS WITH KIDS
In the most recent issue of Crib Notes, I wrote about the kind of effortlessly readable novels that can be enjoyed when you feel like you are always doing three things at once. I recommended Kiley Reid’s juicily readable but pin-sharp, provocative Come and Get It; Emily Howes’s captivating debut The Painters’ Daughters; Kate Brody’s riveting Rabbit Hole and Sophie Mackintosh’s mesmerising and erotic Cursed Bread.
It's outrageously unputdownable, isn't it? It's almost like it's deceptively readable - feels super light and breezy and yet it packs such an enormous punch in terms of BIG talking points.
I just finished How I won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto that I loved so much I basically inhaled it. Well, read it in three happy chunks. It’s about a physicist, Helen, who through force of circumstance has to go and live and work at an academic institution for people who have been cancelled - academics, cultural figures and suchlike. Think Tár but in the world of High Temperature Superconductors. It was so clever, inventive and funny, I loved it.
Just binged COME AND GET IT last week, and it was exactly what I needed!! Wish I hadn’t already read SUCH A FUN AGE!
I know right? I'm really struggling to think of another writer who nails the sweet spot between bingeable and smart with such elegance!
I really enjoyed Come and Get It. Another similarly smart and contemporary read, and very funny too, is Green Dot.
Halfway through Come and Get It after staying up painfully late getting hooked into it on Sunday!
It's outrageously unputdownable, isn't it? It's almost like it's deceptively readable - feels super light and breezy and yet it packs such an enormous punch in terms of BIG talking points.
I just finished How I won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto that I loved so much I basically inhaled it. Well, read it in three happy chunks. It’s about a physicist, Helen, who through force of circumstance has to go and live and work at an academic institution for people who have been cancelled - academics, cultural figures and suchlike. Think Tár but in the world of High Temperature Superconductors. It was so clever, inventive and funny, I loved it.
omg that sounds super cool. going to look it up asap. Maybe make an exception and read a man for once haha ;) x