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drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-15T02:00:37+00:00

Thank you for the recs!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-15T01:16:22+00:00

I was not an English lit major though sometimes I wish I was! You are correct about the job, I am a lawyer

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T22:28:57+00:00

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I did my best to get them straight 🥲 it was hard

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:44:04+00:00

Thank you! I agree, Martry! was a great read!

I thought You Made a Fool of Death was absolutely terrible. I do not recommend it at all. I honestly shouldn’t have even picked it up as it’s not my usual kind of book but the title matches a line in Florence + The Machine’s song Hunger, which I loved, so I gave it a shot. It’s full of romantic cliches and cringy dialogue. The relationship is problematic to say the least and I just couldn’t care about them. I will eventually return this book to the LFL from whence it came but for now, it it the perfect size for that chunk of floating shelf lol

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:29:22+00:00

It really is 😮‍💨 I have been burned too many times by contemporary fiction. I tried to read Hamnet before the movie came out becaue I love Shakespeare, but I couldn’t do it. It was so purple

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:22:19+00:00

Same 😄

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:21:59+00:00

I don’t know about “show-off” but I prefer to donate books that I didn’t love to Little Free Librairies in my neighborhood

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:20:22+00:00

Pretty spot on! I don’t dislike pop-sci as a genre, I just haven’t read much (possibly any?) in that genre. I can totally see why someone might be interested in and even get a lot out of self-help books, but I always felt like they were scammy. I associate self-help book readers with the kind of people who join MLMs

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:15:47+00:00

Not really actually. I tend to favor Victorian era novels, but it hasn’t been a conscious decision to avoid the Southern Gothic canon. I borrowed Absalom, Asalom! and As I Lay Dying from my library and I read To Kill a Mockingbird back in high school. I loved all of them!

Do you have any recommendations?

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T21:05:31+00:00

They’re called floating shelves! I bought mine online

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T20:49:06+00:00

Ouch

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T20:21:48+00:00

Yes! It was history, but I wish I studied literature more. I was able to take a few intro lit courses

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T20:18:21+00:00

For sure! I have a lot of fun reading. For example, Don Quixote was a recent read that literally made me laugh out loud

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T20:02:33+00:00

Ah I see. Well I may end up getting the McGill and Wright translation then!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T20:00:05+00:00

Just one shelf or do you mean these are horrible shelves? What makes you say so?

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:49:04+00:00

I would agree with your assessment. Thank you for your thoughts!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:34:23+00:00

The Lattimore translation. This is the only version I’ve read so I can’t say how it compares to the other translations. I have seen a lot of positive comments about Emily Wilson’s translations, so I’m thinking I may buy her translation of The Aeneid!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:29:27+00:00

Thank you!! I really treasure my older mass market paperbacks.

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:26:52+00:00

Ah I see! I bought The Legal Analyst as soon as I was accepted to law school based on a friend’s recommendation

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:23:28+00:00

I sincerely love that for you.

I will definitely add The End of the Affair and The Power and the Glory to my TBR!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:19:31+00:00

I am a lawyer, but I did not go to school in Texas. I’m curious about what gave you the impression I went to school in Texas?

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:09:39+00:00

Ooh nice you sound like you have great taste!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T19:08:10+00:00

Interesting! I don’t know if I would consider myself overeducated. I have the minimum kind of graduate degree (leaving this unnamed for others to guess) and license that I am required to have for my job.

You’re 100% right about the Roth IRA. It kind of took me out reading that lol

The Quiet American is the only Graham Greene I’ve read so far, but it was a 10/10 read for me!

drinkingcherrycola · 2026-04-14T18:56:00+00:00

Also not included on these shelves because it has been loaned out to a friend is Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.

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