6 Books I Want To Tell You About

...should we start an Othertongue book club: Y/N?

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6 Books I Want To Tell You About

Usually when I write a books round up, I am wont to write a headline like The 13 Books I Loved Most This Year or 13 Books I've Recently Read and Loved. In collecting today’s digital stack, however, I realized that I have a more complex feeling about the books below. All of them are books I’m glad I read, and about which I have something to say. They’re books I’d love to discuss with you if we could grab a coffee over the weekend.

In thinking about it, I wondered whether there was value in sharing about books about which I wasn’t one-hundred percent gung-ho. Should all recommendations be unequivocal tens? I do think in the recommendations consumer culture we find ourselves in, it is considered “rude” to speak ill of books that people have worked hard on. And I get it, having written two of my own and knowing the burn of someone’s criticism. That said, none of these books are pans, in my opinion. I feel some ambivalence. I feel curiosity. They’d be good book club books, I think, particularly the Claire Lombardo one. And ultimately, they are books I’d like to talk to you about because they’ve kept me thinking after I closed the back cover.

If you’ve read any of them, or plan to, I’d love to hear what you think in the comments!

As always, my books roundups aren’t determined by publication date, but by what’s of interest at the time.