Mon Petit Chou Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Liska Jacobs is an author. A waiter at Musso once had me sign his copy of Catalina

Eloise: The Absolutely Essential 60th Anniversary Edition
Kay Thompson
@rachsyme asked about best books in hotels and I remembered I pitched The Pink Hotel as Kay Thompson’s Eloise meets J.G Ballard’s High-rise https://t.co/DFOx6yG6wQ
Hardcover, 2015
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Seven Empty Houses (National Book Award Winner)
Samanta Schweblin
Schweblin is never explicit. Any implied creepiness is a product of the reader’s own imagination ... Scarier than any fall horror movie...is the knowledge that the various assemblages of our lives are merely delicate scaffolding, liable to come crashing down at any moment.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles
Forgot to mention that Kit Collins in THE PINK HOTEL is named after Kit Moresby in THE SHELTERING SKY, a book I read early on when I was looking at marriages in literature (REVOLUTIONARY ROAD was another)❤️🔥
Paperback, 2005
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Horse at Night: On Writing
Amina Cain
Cain creates an urgent yet serene and refreshingly vulnerable meditation on the unity between life and art. This is a gift for anyone who could use a moment of reflection at the end of yet another long year.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Old Hollywood
Shannon Lynette
“The Pink Hotel is by turns a love story, a social satire, an elegy for the planet, a farewell to the glamour of Old Hollywood, and, above all, a morality tale.” I adore this review of THE PINK HOTEL. I feel seen. #rootforthemonkey ❤️🔥 https://t.co/P9wCh5OebG
Paperback, 2013
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The Pink Hotel
Liska Jacobs
In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Liska Jacobs writes an LA story about the hidden cost of privilege 🔥🔥https://t.co/XVZlEQIo3B
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book