Constance Grady Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Constance Grady

Nona the Ninth is a deceptive book: Its sweetness hides teeth, and then its teeth hide more sweetness. As long as you go in without expecting fancy things like being able to understand every detail of the action in a literal and straightforward way, it will treat you right.

Constance Grady

Ian McEwan’s Lessons is stunning. Absolutely his best book in years, possibly his best since Atonement.

Constance Grady

so Mary Rodgers was the daughter of Richard Rodgers (as in "and Hammerstein"), the composer behind Once Upon a Mattress, and the author of the YA novel Freaky Friday. she was besties with Sondheim, frenemies with Laurent, and met basically everyone in midcentury showbiz.

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At the Bedwetter, the project Adam Schlesinger was working on before his death by COVID, in partnership with Sarah Silverman. Deeply sweet and charming. https://t.co/76OWpSTkJe

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Either/Or is a deeply interior novel... Batuman is an expert at defamiliarizing ideas that have become so normal to us we can no longer see them clearly... In her hands, the polite absurdities of everyday life become huge, perplexing, and very funny.

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I thought Our Missing Hearts got too didactic for its own good at times, but no one writes about parenthood as beautifully as Celeste Ng. https://t.co/FBypfWR859

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Taranto understands the appeal of bad-man geniuses, and he understands their dangers, too. Not for nothing: This book is funny as heck.

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I loved Vintage Contemporaries and immediately pushed it every friend I have who has survived publishing. https://t.co/hcCkTTPF2F

Constance Grady

Stark, vicious, and transcendent, The Vaster Wilds is the best book I’ve read all year. It’s a triumph.

Constance Grady

Hello, I did not like To Paradise and I did not like A Little Life either! I spent a long, long time trying to work out what they were doing and why it bugged me, and here’s what I got. https://www.vox.com/culture/22884073/to-paradise-review-hanya-yanagihara-a-little-life?utm_campaign=constancegrady&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter