What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July
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Max Porter, Daisy Johnson, Avni Doshi and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments I recently read Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot . It’s one of the best novels I’ve ever read about what it means to live with others, or decide not to; what we owe the p
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Max Porter, Daisy Johnson, Avni Doshi and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments I recently read Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot .
It’s one of the best novels I’ve ever read about what it means to live with others, or decide not to; what we owe the people we love, the natural world, and ourselves. I also really enjoyed Robert Frost , by Robert Frost and Stacy Skolnik.
It’s not that Robert Frost; it’s an itinerant young American Robert Frost who jots down his thoughts and observations on homelessness, food, value, music, drugs, the philosophical wastelands of contemporary life, and Stacy Skolnik has turned them into these delightful, oddly profound, poems.
Also, coming soon, End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Everyone should read it.
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