6/1/2023 0 Comments Riddley walker bookIrby is the author of multiple self-deprecating, affecting, painfully funny essay collections- We Are Never Meeting in Real Life is her second her newest, Quietly Hostile, will be out in May. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, by Samantha Irby Read: How to keep your book club from becoming a wine club And whether you agree with them or not, your reading partner’s impressions might entirely change how you think about the story. They offer riddles to crack, and polarizing characters and conclusions to argue about. And with any companion-especially on a road trip-listening to an audiobook together can be spellbinding, or at least give you something to laugh about.īelow are five books made even better by experiencing them with somebody else-a significant other, a friend, or a family member. Making my way through a book at the same time as friends who are more attentive readers helps me notice details I may have missed entirely. When my fiancée and I adore, or despise, an author’s work for the same reasons, it’s a rush-like the feeling of finishing each other’s sentences. But lately, I’ve tried to make more room for wandering through a plot alongside someone I love. Because I no longer read with classmates and I’m not in any book clubs, this delight has become a rare one for me-most of the time, reading is a solitary pursuit. Until I’m actually doing it, I frequently forget how pleasurable it is to stop in the middle of a book and text a friend, aghast at what just happened.
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