![]() You know how Waldman’s debut novel was a look at a series of relationships with complicated, real women told through the POV of a smug, irritating male writer? Well! Imagine how awesome it would be to read something about a series of relationships with complicated, real women from the POV of a complicated, real woman? Pretty awesome, right? You have no idea Caldwell’s Women will blow you away. While it might be true that this Melville House-published book isn’t similar in terms of subject with Dunham’s memoir, it’s still a funny and smart and engaging read, which is all that really counts, right? Right.Īdelle Waldman’s The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. There’s one thing: reading about people who have failed. So you really enjoyed Lena Dunham’s memoir recounting what it is like to be her? Us too! There’s nothing we like more than reading about how incredibly successful someone our age/younger than us is. You see, it's like this: Reality is MUCH more intricate, refined, complex and multi-dimensional than our own perceptions can recognise. The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure edited by C.D. You will have to get rid of some of your prejudices and be more wary of the judgements you make about people -women in particular. She offers no excuses for how her characters behave, making for an exhilarating, unflinching look at the damage we are all prone to inflict on one another. This book, along with the two others in the series, was an instant hit with romance fans and encouraged non-romance readers to step outside of their literary comfort zone. Isolation is also at the center of Bertino’s magical debut, which weaves together the stories of a tangle of Philadelphians-many of them lovelorn, all searching to be seen and heard by those around them.įlynn’s Gone Girl is now the archetype of a novel centering around an amoral woman, but if you want to dive into something that’s even more psychologically probing and unapologetic about the manifold messy ways in which women sometimes act, give Hunter a chance. Books to Read if You Like 50 Shades of Grey Back in 2011, E L James took the book world by storm with her novel, 50 Shades of Grey. Murakami’s latest novel starts out as a tale of teenage alienation and then-as Murakami novels are wont to do-spirals out into an epic exploration of loneliness.
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