Lisa Grimes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Lisa Grimes on X
Reader, mostly. You can find me on Mastodon @LisaG@home.social @williamandmary alum now @HamiltonCollege
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives
Andrew H. MillerLisa Grimes"Our self-portraits use a lot of negative space." A #SundaySentence from @joshuarothman's piece on @ahmiller812's On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of our Unled Lives in the 12/14/20 @NewYorker
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison BechdelLisa GrimesMost people don’t even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails. #SundaySentence from Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Hardcover, 2021
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Early Morning Riser
Katherine HeinyLisa Grimes“It was actually so easy to make almost anyone happy. Why didn’t she do more of it?” Joining the Early Morning Riser (by @katherine_heiny) fan club with @mirhalberstam and @John_Bizzell #SundaySentence
Hardcover, Large Print, 2021
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Another Country: Selected Stories
David ConstantineLisa GrimesAnd he watched her vanishing behind her eyes, to where she really belonged. #SundaySentence from "The Loss" in David Constantine's collection In Another Country
Paperback, 2016
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exteriors
Annie ErnauxLisa Grimes“To us, our lives are full of texture and incident and feeling, but to history, we are two dates engraved in stone, if we’re lucky.” #SundaySentence from the @JoannaBiggs review of Exteriors by Annie Ernaux in the @LRB
Paperback, 2021
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elena Knows
Claudia PiñeiroLisa Grimes"A memory for details, Elena knows, is only for the brave, and being cowardly or brave is not something one can choose." #SundaySentence from Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
Jan MorrisLisa Grimes“I am homesick, I am thinking sad thoughts about age, doubt and dissolution, but I am not unhappy.” I am thinking about the extraordinary Jan Morris today and returning to Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere with a little sadness. #SundaySentence
Paperback, 2002
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Swallowed Man
Edward CareyLisa GrimesAm I growing wiser, I wondered, as I am being punished? #SundaySentence from Edward Carey's The Swallowed Man
Out of stock
So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
William MaxwellLisa GrimesThe sound was not a car backfiring; a tenant farmer named Lloyd Wilson had just been shot and killed, and what they heard was the gun that killed him. A #SundaySentence from William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow #APStogether
Paperback, 1996
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A High Wind in Jamaica
Richard HughesLisa Grimes"Once more a phase of their lives was receding into the past, and crystallizing into myth." #SundaySentence from A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
Paperback, 1999
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book