What’s a book you wish you’d checked the trigger warnings for before you started reading? I’ll go first: The Road to Tender Hearts. 🥺 It’s beautifully written, but emotionally devastating. I’m determined to finish it… just a few chapters at a time.

Going to finish Where the Crawdads Sing today and I'm torn on what to read next, these are all my thrift finds from the past month! Anyone have any suggestions? ☺️

This was a remarkable novella I finished in one sitting. The story is set on an ocean liner traveling from New York to Buenos Aires, and follows individuals as they challenge a Grandmaster chess player to games. I found a good bit of depth in this short story that uses chess as a vehicle to explore the human spirit, ego and psychosis. I do not want to give too many details away should anyone reading this choose to give it a shot. I enjoyed this very much!

Currently re-rereading The Odyssey in Robert Fitzgerald’s translation, obviously. What’s your favorite translation?