Rachel Syme Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rachel Syme

… a book about two couples in late 1970s NYC, but also about taste, autonomy, how to live alone, how to set a table, how to give up a little bit of yourself so that you can connect with someone else, what parts of yourself to never give away... You’ll read this book in one inhalation.

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The dramatic events that took place in the Dunne family would have enough narrative weight to propel even a blandly written book, but @griffindunne wrote the HELL out of this. There is so much in it about media and crime reporting and acting and fame and tragedy and style and sleek aunts...

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I don’t know exactly how to talk about this book yet except to say that I want to press it into the hands of every woman I know between the ages of 35-55 who might be feeling more unmoored and adrift than ever but also as ALIVE and AWAKE as you’ve ever been.

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experiencing off the charts levels of joy reading kim hastreiter’s stuff. perfect book, exquisite. (I also highly recommend going back and reading dana goodyear’s 2007 TNY profile of hastreiter called “the enthusiast”)

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I want to enthusiastically recommend @katykelleher’s Ugly History of Beautiful Things... it’s a perfect fix for I want to bathe myself and beautiful prose and remember how to write sharply about the little details... She takes shiny things seriously... A lovely autumnal read.

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this book has swooped in right at the end to be one of my favorites of the year…stayed up until 3am with it more than once 👓

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It became spring and all I wanted to do was reread Mrs. Dalloway and it is really hitting this season

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An absolutely luscious treat, like pistachio gelato on the hottest day …this is genuinely a very good book about New York City, about the cosmopolitan dream and how it can curdle. Read it on a park bench in the springtime.

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The Cafe With No Name... tells the story of a lonely man in Vienna in 1966, who buys a dilapidated café... Customers come, they fill the space, they talk to one another, they relieve each other’s loneliness. That’s kind of all that happens, and yet I found myself gripped to it.

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It took me longer than it should have to open this book... but I finally picked it up this summer and read it in one breathless, delighted, constantly impressed gulp. @czaronline you are a wizard!!!!! One of the best and most honest millennial-coming-of-age books I’ve read...

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