https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:24:50 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2405467 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:35:05 +0000 JAileen 2405467@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, when I had a book on my ipad that was about due, I turned off its Wifi so I could finish the book! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2405450 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:18:57 +0000 April 2405450@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I started this in December 2025, but I will shout it out here because I thought it was jaw-droppingly good: </p> <p>The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri. </p> <p>I hadn't finished it when it was due at the library but I bought it at our local bookstore and I'm thinking it should supplant the new books on my "read next" list.&nbsp;</p> <p>While I'm reading Sonia and Sunny (see above) as a book book, my current bedtime Kindle read is What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman. More of an interesting plot than a brilliantly written book but I do want to find out what happens so I'll likely continue with it.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404566 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:39:54 +0000 Indigoprint 2404566@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have just started the correspondent.<br /> .but honestly so many characters in the first few pages? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404401 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:00:43 +0000 April 2404401@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So far in 2026, I have read Tenth of December, a short-story collection by George Saunders. Fabulous and disturbing.</p> <p>Also <br />Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy<br />Daddy's Gone A-Hunting - Penelope Mortimer</p> <p>I loved both of those. Currently I'm reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai.<br />Next up: The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus and Stone Yard Devotional.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404384 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:15:49 +0000 Janet 2404384@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I love these threads. </p> <p>So far this year I have read or listened to:</p> <p>- Claire McCardell - Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson<br /> - Pariah - Dan Fesperman (thriller)<br /> - The Devils - Joe Abercrombie (fantasy; his audiobooks are brilliantly performed even though I don’t love this one as much as The Blade Itself series)<br /> - Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar (mystery/true crime mashup in the spirit of Stephen King)<br /> - If Cats Disappeared From the World - Genki Kawamura (a classic Japanese book that had me crying at the end)</p> <p>Current read:<br /> Two-Step Devil - Jamie Quatro </p> <p>Current listen:<br /> Isola - Allegra Goodman </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404339 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:55:12 +0000 LJP 2404339@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Erasure is now on my kindle and ready to go. &nbsp;James was quite incredible. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404179 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:04:19 +0000 Indigoprint 2404179@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Donna, that sounds like fun! Thanks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404171 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:19:55 +0000 DonnaF 2404171@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Samantha Downing’s Too Old for This. Hilarious tale of a now older woman with anger management issues which turns her into a serial killer in between her church’s bingo games. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2404145 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:05:15 +0000 MsMary 2404145@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just finished The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston and it was great. If you loved The Correspondent, you will love this one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403858 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:42:48 +0000 avicennia 2403858@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a lovely thread. The world is dark and I’m well-aware of how unjust life can be. I need my reading to recharge me, and give me hope in humanity. So I’m re-reading the PG Wodehouse canon, and listening to Still Life as narrated by author Sarah Winman. I appreciate suggestions for books that are literary and hopeful, but not trite. The Giraffe book sounds like a good candidate! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403801 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:10:57 +0000 kkards 2403801@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz—how cool that you meet&nbsp;&nbsp;Percival Everett! &nbsp;I just recently got a copy of Erasure, looking forward to reading it.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403765 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:56:56 +0000 Carol 2403765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Naked Lunch, a classic. Not for the faint of heart. Some would say gruesome, I think it's fantastic!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403737 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:50:43 +0000 JAileen 2403737@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’ve just started Strangers by Belle Burden. &nbsp;A woman descended from US aristocracy, discovers her husband is cheating. &nbsp;Kind of a horror story, but not fiction. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403710 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:59:16 +0000 Olive Green 2403710@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am rereading The Social Life of Dogs: The grace of canine company, for probably the third time. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is an anthropologist, and social scientist. Another favourite by her, is The Old Way: A story of the first people.&nbsp;<br />Also rereading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptnomicon, part of his amazing Baroque cycle. Absolutely everything you wanted to know about the historical development of money, banking, etc, in a sweeping and very well researched set of novels. Easiest way to understand crypto that I know of </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403687 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:10:18 +0000 pil 2403687@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just started West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge - I like it so far!<div><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.lyndarutledge.com/WestwGiraffes.htm">https://www.lyndarutledge.com/WestwGiraffes.htm</a></p> <p><div> <p><strong>“Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105,</strong>&nbsp;feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave....It's 1938....The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to become Southern California's first giraffes. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world's first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.</p> <p>Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, <strong><em>West with Giraffes</em>&nbsp;</strong>explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it's too late.”</p> </div><br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403684 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:57:34 +0000 Suz 2403684@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I loved the Correspondent! I listened to it in the summer. I also really enjoyed Janet's fashion related recommendation -- the biography of Claire McCardell. We owe her so much! She was a fashion genius, I think. And led quite an adventuresome and interesting life.&nbsp;</p> <p>I've been reading poetry (I know not everyone's taste, but Marie Howe and Karen Solie are amazing). Also re-reading (via audio) Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy. She is so good!&nbsp;</p> <p>I read James last year and loved it. Erasure is also really good. Fun fact: I met Percival Everett years ago at a writing conference.&nbsp;</p> <p>Carla, The Grand Sophy is brilliant! I love Georgette Heyer!</p> <p>Another recent read for those into literary analysis and gossip and/or those who have ever lived with an alcoholic or a closeted parent...Susan Cheever's study of her father's fiction: When All The Men Wore Hats. She's a writer herself, and a good one, and she has many insights into her father's work but also into the psyche of those who write from personal experience.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403655 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:19:53 +0000 Peri 2403655@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If anyone likes fantasy, I'm reading The Tainted Cup (Robert Jackson Bennett) and really liking it. It's a murder mystery set in a fantasy world with a Holmes and Watson kind of twist. Now...I don't like murder mysteries and never read them, but I'm liking this one. It has gotten me out of a reading slump...for most of November and all of December I only wanted to read things I'd read before and knew I liked. This has finally perked me up again.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403644 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:07:53 +0000 LJP 2403644@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's funny: I was a bit intimidated by James when I first read reviews and pre-pub info. I did not study the classics in university and while I read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a very young person, I probably had no idea what I was really reading and don't remember any of it. &nbsp;I read a lot of literary novels but some of the old stuff (Moby Dick et al) is beyond me. &nbsp;This one is surprisingly accessible. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403634 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:03:21 +0000 Indigoprint 2403634@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks all who replied.<br /> Based on your recc's I bought James for DH gift. Jim has always been his favorite character.<br /> Housemaid secret series was fun.<br /> And I currently have the Correspondent in my que waiting for me to start while I finish what I am currently reading. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403631 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:52:29 +0000 elena 2403631@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Recently I read and really enjoyed “James” and also “Isola” by Allegra Goodman. I just started “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” by VE Schwab - very popular, might be about vampires? I’m not sure what I think of it yet. And, when I told a friend I was focusing on doing what I want in the new year, she recommended “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself” by Glynis MacNicol, which is a memoir of a woman doing exactly that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403537 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:28:54 +0000 kkards 2403537@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa—read “James” last year for my book group. Really liked it, but it’s weird in that it’s a book that I like more the farther away I am from actually having read it because it’s a book that even months later I’m still thinking about. Percival Everett‘s wife, Danzy Senna, is also an author. And this summer I read one of her books “Colored Television”. Highly recommend<br /> Read about 2/3 of the Mark Twain bio. Just could not finish. Ended up really disliking him. And imo the book needed a good editor. But ymmv<br /> And another DNF was “Margo’s Got Money Problems “. Thousands and thousands of 4 &amp; 5 star reviews on Goodreads. Seemed like a fun read for Xmas travel. So bad I left it in the airport.<br /> Just staring “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips for my book group. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403532 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:07:37 +0000 Carla 2403532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a large collection of (probably all) the historical romance novels written by Georgette Heyer from when they were all reprinted by Sourcebooks in the mid to late ‘aughts. &nbsp;At the start of the year I googled ‘Georgette Heyer’s’ funniest romances’ - then pulled them out of my collection. &nbsp;I’m currently reading ‘The Grand Sophy’. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403499 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:56:50 +0000 MsMary 2403499@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>Missvee</b>, I loved The Correspondent!! I have had a slow start to 2026 -- read a couple of books I didn't love. I'm just starting The Murrow Boys by Lynne Olson for my book club, and it's looking like it's going to be a winner. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403473 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:27:39 +0000 LJP 2403473@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I’m reading James ( by Percival Everett ) right now . Can’t put it down ! I like the Lincoln Lawyer series too , Helena . ( Books more so than the tv show .) I have The Correspondent on reserve at the library and can’t wait to get it ! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403472 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:05:01 +0000 missvee 2403472@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. &nbsp;I’m about halfway through and I’m really enjoying the characters and the writing style. &nbsp;It’s the story of a successful woman, a retired lawyer in her 70s, told entirely through the letters she writes and receives. &nbsp;It’s funny, sad and insightful.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403471 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:45:38 +0000 Helena 2403471@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nothing highbrow that's for sure lol ... Right now it's a Lincoln Lawyer series book, and then the Housemaid is next. Easy reading for a hectic month. </p> <p>I also bought LifeStyled by Shira Gill who is a minimalism blogger, to peruse when I need inspiration. I just flip through that one when I need a peaceful minute. Very bloggy writing style but I appreciate her aesthetic and perspective. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/winter-reading#post-2403465 Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:23:02 +0000 Indigoprint 2403465@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What are you fabbers reading after the holidays? </p>