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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I also loved that one to be fair. My favourite is probably Eva Luna

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yes Garcia Marquez is a favourite of mine too. I just read Memories of my Melancholy Whores which was fantastic

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Oh yes that is her first one and it is amazing .... let me know how you find it. It is a long time since I read it but it was my introduction to her and I have not looked back. This is how I discovered magic realism. She is very interesting. Her uncle was Salvador Allende, Chilean president

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Love Roald Dahl. I am fascinated by his ability to write funny children's books as well as dark and fairly risque adult novels

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Oooo which one? I have 3 on my TBR and then I think I will have read them all. She is also very prolific so am always trying to catch up

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Such a fabulous novel. Am a big fan and my daughter got it for Christmas last year.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Same here … in the late 80s I was all about Russian greats. I am still partial to Dostoyevsky but have not actually read any Russian novel in ages. Also had a South American period and again I am still partial to Isabel Allende and Louis de Bernieres.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Very true. Shirley Jackson who I am a huge fan of wrote outstanding novels while having a million children and a totally useless husband with no real job.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

ha ha touche 😉. Still obsessive about reading but probably less so about reading inexplicably long and terribly conceited novels. I am less of a snob than I used to be as a teenager.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I guess you have to have the imagination but also the time ... not everyone can have the luxury of writing

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I must admit I have not read any since I was probably 17 or 18. Maybe I should give it another go: I was fairly obsessive in those days and had too much time on my hands 😂

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I know right? She wrote about 20 or 30 novels: amazing stuff.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I adore this book and yes it is a graphic novel. Definitely worth reading and I suspect it will be everywhere now she has just died.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I do like a chunk of a novel but yes they can be difficult to get into. Hopefully it will kick in soon for you

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I like both The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means although looking at dates, they were both written in the 60s rather than the 70s. She wrote a lot in the 70s as well

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If we are talking 90s literature then we need to mention Possession by AS Byatt which may be one of the best novels in the English language #devonbookhour

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I was a teenager when I read it and had more time to spend reading obscure difficult literature 😂I also read a lot of Soljenytsin at the time ... I probably would not anymore

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Endling is about a Ukrainian gastropdologist (studies snails) who gets involved with a 'buy-a-bride' organisation. I am only about 20% in and it is OK but not yet giving me the feels. From the 1970s I do like a bit of Muriel Spark :-)

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Evening. Sorry I have been MIA for a while. I am reading Endling by Maria Reva which I am not entirely sure about yet. Umberto Eco is quite tough to read. Read The Name of the Rose years ago and enjoyed it but it was quite hard going

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

How exciting 😁. Not a huge fan of Musso but he is very very popular in France. I had surgery last Monday so have been reading loads this week as I can’t move much.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So do I. Recently I was enjoying a story but the narrator did not work for me so I ended up reading it instead. It makes a massive difference.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Lots of things: the main character was very annoying and not relatable at all and the story had no jeopardy at all for me. Also I listened to it as audiobook and the whole book is set in France with French characters and the author mispronounced nearly all of them. Lots of people loved it though

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This one is about 4 Nigerian middle-aged women leaving their lives in America and Nigeria and trying to navigate life, love, family and friendships. Really enjoying it. Also finished Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner which I did not love

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Interesting question … I don’t read a lot of memoirs but I guess for me it is about someone who has a good story to tell but also can write

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Book bag is all kinds of awesome. Love that shop 🥰

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I am here for a bit. Hope you are all ok. I have been reading Dreamcount by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which is gorgeous. #devonbookhour

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just started Dreamcount by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I loved this novel. Read it in French and it was so profound and sad and clever. Beautiful stuff but also heartbreaking.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Yes big aristocratic family. First volume is set in 1938 and then I think it goes all the way to the 1950s in subsequent volumes. Funny but it also has a dark side.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I am reading the first volume in the Cazalet series by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It is very good. Also read a novel about life in east Berlin in the last 80s … super interesting

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You are probably right about Hardy but I do love his writing.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

1890s were a great decade. I did a module at uni on late Victorian fiction which covers some of that period. Love Emily Dickinson and Mary Shelley as well as Thomas Hardy of course.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Have not read either but I love Iris Murdoch.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Ironique ou pas c’est de très mauvais goût et ce qui est pire c’est que ce n’est même pas de la bonne poésie.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I like it when I find people who like the same book as me 😁. It was quite sad but beautiful.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It is a dual story about a young woman in India in 1916 and her great grandson in England in the 90s. Contemporary literature

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Well … I am definitely going to look out for it. I shall report back.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Not read any of them but The Interpreter of Maladies has been on my ‘wanted’ list for a long time. I will be interested to see what you think

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Never read Hesse. Would I like it? The last audiobook I listened to was China Room by Sunjeev Sahota and was very good.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Yes it is very different and incredibly clever. The whole series is called On the Calculation of Volume. Number V I think is due out in English in November 2026. I can’t wait as number IV finished on a cliffhanger.

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It is a time travelling story of sorts. The main character is stuck on the 18th November. Sounds like it should be awful and yet it is an amazing philosophical and fascinating series. The last 3 volumes are only available in Danish currently ☹️

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austennerd.bsky.social @austennerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026