Sim Carter, Writer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sim Carter, Writer

Who else is watching The Lying Life of Adults on Netflix? It’s too late to tell me I should have read the book by Elena Ferrante first because I took a peek while my husband was napping and suddenly I was 4 out of 6 eps in. Ferrante—whoever she is—at her finest. https://t.co/IFoVv5mXz9

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ABSOFUCKINGLUTELYLOVING The It Girl by ⁦Ruth Ware❤️ Noting one small thing I love about BritSpeak in general. Uttering only the first part of commonplace sayings like this one. “so every cloud” says it all. No need to say “has a silver lining” It’s understood, yeah? Genius!❤️ https://t.co/dnpAtV57Wv

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Margaret Wise Brown, author of the beautiful books for #children Goodnight Moon & The Runaway Bunny was #bornonthisday. I read them to my son almost 30 years ago & I’ll never know who got more out of the soft, sweet hush of her poetry, the reader or the read-ee 😉 #picturebooks https://t.co/5NFOBcICjH

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Had an appointment with my new doc, a lovely, young, energetic woman who got all excited when I told her I was writing a book. And we talked books & bookstores! She recommended Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale & I suggested Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow. She’s reading it now!

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I discovered Taylor Jenkins Reid with Daisy Jones & the Six. As a woman who came of age in LA in the 70s, Daisy lived a life a girl like me could only wish for. With Malibu Rising I once again visited a world open only to those privy to the rarified air of Malibu, 🧵 https://t.co/YLUX5Znwk5

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I’ve just started reading Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler @smdanler which proves the point that rules are meant to be broken if you do it brilliantly! TY @irenehumphreysa & your library colleagues for the recommendation.

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“The only thing changing was my vision—like the first time I put on glasses and looked in wonder at the trees, and felt inexplicably betrayed. Those clearly delineated leaves had been there all along, and no one ever told me.” I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai #leaves https://t.co/j2F4G2W0Ae

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Eileen & Simon in Sally Rooney’s Hello Beautiful World Where Are You are giving me very Florence & Edward in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach vibes. Why is it so hard for men & women to talk honestly with each other? Just me?

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Oh my God! This book! I gasped so loudly reading Trespasses by Irish author Louise Kennedy my husband asked if everything was ok. ‘No!’ But also, yes! Such a brilliant piece of work @WomensPrize https://t.co/MAsTBmcBra

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Intimacies by Katie Kitamura is set in The Hague where the MC works, interpreting in the case of a former President accused of committing war crimes. In the book, the president gets away with it. IRL would Putin, a real war criminal, even show up? How do we stop this monster? https://t.co/bsIQzkBA1a

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