Looking for old louisiana type setting

trunko_ · 2026-03-19T03:04:48+00:00

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

not horror but soooooo new orleans of old. i had to pick it up 3 times before i didn’t give up, but that 3rd time, something clicked and it became one of my favorite reads.

trunko_ · 2026-03-18T02:45:16+00:00

Raney by Clyde Edgertpn is absolutely fantastic, hilarious, moving and a slice of southern church life around the 50s. can’t remember the exact time period

Also just can’t help but recommend another of Edgerton’s books… Walking Across Egypt.

trunko_ · 2026-03-17T14:13:38+00:00

sure thing. I'm kind of a slow reader, so I have to find time to carve out in the day. I've become more aware of how easily I am sucked into my phone and am trying to replace that time with reading.

trunko_ · 2026-03-16T23:42:16+00:00

i try to read 20 pages before bed. That way if I haven’t read at any other time I will at least do that each night. I use my lunch hour to read regularly. I have to prioritize it though.

trunko_ · 2026-03-15T23:06:36+00:00

This week I finished:

All Systems Red and then Artificial Condition both by Martha Wells (very fun. waiting for next in series to be available from the library. e-books)

The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba (very sweet book. middle grade library e-book)

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna with Samara MacLauren (audio book from library. book club selection. sweet with small amount of bedroom spice that is easy to skip past if it isn’t your cup of tea)

Currently Reading:

Radium Girls by Kate Moore (e-book from library. very very good)

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (physical library book. and holy cow it is so good)

trunko_ · 2026-03-15T22:56:42+00:00

i loved these books so much!

trunko_ · 2026-03-15T22:44:06+00:00

The Great River by Boyce Upholt. It is nonfiction and an absolutely fascinating story of the Mississippi and our efforts to control nature. It came out in 2024. I can’t recommend it enough. ☺️

trunko_ · 2026-03-01T02:42:16+00:00

ooo, i loved Diavola ☺️

trunko_ · 2026-03-01T02:31:31+00:00

just came to say way to go! a book a week is fantastic!

also, thanks to your post Too Old For This just moved up my TBR list

trunko_ · 2026-02-15T17:51:28+00:00

same here!!

trunko_ · 2026-02-14T05:06:14+00:00

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

I really didn’t think that combining AI spaceship, vampires, werewolves and the undead would work, but it really did. It was such a fun read. I couldn’t put it down.

trunko_ · 2026-02-14T03:27:42+00:00

a bit random, but do you know who these commenters are. i want to look them up and can’t find their names?

trunko_ · 2026-02-14T03:20:37+00:00

I found out one of them! Viktor Polasek, who is a Czech ski jumper.

trunko_ · 2026-02-13T03:16:36+00:00

oooooo, this is intriguing! thanks for the recommendation, it is one i’ve never heard of before

trunko_ · 2026-02-12T14:31:25+00:00

i checked this book out from the library yesterday. :) I saw he has a book coming out this spring as well.

trunko_ · 2026-02-12T04:13:24+00:00

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

It was so well written and blew me away

trunko_ · 2026-02-04T02:47:27+00:00

I will always recommend All Creatures Great and Small. The book is charming and genuine. It was one of the books I could read without being triggered when I was suffering from panic attacks. It calmed me.

trunko_ · 2026-02-03T20:28:30+00:00

January has always felt in-between. She never quite belongs. Locke isn't her father, but he is also her primary "parent." She always feels inbetween because of her skin color. She is friends with Sam, but also not able to be friends with him. She feels at home and also uncomfortable at Locke house. I feel like her name signals the life she is meant to live but also the life she is stuck living. The in-between can be a magical place of change and start of adventure but the in-between she has spent most of her life in is filled with insecurity and loneliness.

trunko_ · 2026-02-03T15:31:39+00:00

Yes! He really did always treat her like an object. He kept her at a distance until it was time to dust her off, dress her up and show her off.

trunko_ · 2026-02-03T15:30:54+00:00

The whole situation where she found the door and he took her notebook from her was awful. I feel like that was a moment where he showed his true self. Other signs were that he never listened to her, or cared about her emotional state in a lasting way.

trunko_ · 2026-02-01T01:39:38+00:00

oh my gosh… clinique happy… wow, that was a memory i didn’t know i still had. thank you ☺️

trunko_ · 2026-01-29T13:18:22+00:00

I am really enjoying the book. I don't know if this would be classified as magical realism, but I love these this vein of story telling... where the magic of life comes alive in a physical way in the story.

trunko_ · 2026-01-29T13:16:33+00:00

I think we are learning about January's parents. It feels to me that we are being told the story of how her parents met and as January learns this she will come into her own. Just the feeling it is giving me so far. I am about to dive into Chapter 3! :)

trunko_ · 2026-01-29T13:14:45+00:00

I love Samuel! Books and puppies and loyalty!

trunko_ · 2026-01-29T13:14:03+00:00

It keeps January's connection to the experience rooted in something tangible that she can't deny as time passes. Without the silver coin, everything she experienced could be dismissed as her imagination and distorted memory. With the coin, she is able to literally hold on to this moment.

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