Thank you, thank you, for being a fellow academic who reads loads of fiction! My colleagues post their Christmas break reading and it just looks like work. Give me a fat novel which takes me to another time or place please, not more non-fiction. You have to read Patricia Lockwood's "No One is Talking About This", it was weird and very online and stunning and heartbreaking. I sat in the garden silently weeping and then loudly weeping when I couldn't contain it any longer. Good for a long weekend when you want to feel all the feels.
Thank you, thank you, for being a fellow academic who reads loads of fiction! My colleagues post their Christmas break reading and it just looks like work. Give me a fat novel which takes me to another time or place please, not more non-fiction. You have to read Patricia Lockwood's "No One is Talking About This", it was weird and very online and stunning and heartbreaking. I sat in the garden silently weeping and then loudly weeping when I couldn't contain it any longer. Good for a long weekend when you want to feel all the feels.