Hi there! Flowers for Algernon is absolutely heartbreaking, but not in a melodramatic way. What a book …

As for Hemingway. I read some of his stories BEFORE A Moveable Feast so I was saved from disappointment. I do think this is his best work, so everything else feels worse. But if I had to arrange his books in order I liked them, there would be his short stories on the second place. Also, The Old Man And The Sea comes very close to the level of honesty in A Moveable Feast but to get it completely, I think one should first read a bit about the background for the story. It’s a tricky task to do, if you don’t want to spoil the story for yourself, but the story get a totally new angle once you know what had been happening before he wrote it. In short, The Old Man And The Sea is not only an actual story about a fisherman, it’s also a metaphor about Hemingway himself at that moment of his life. Knowing that, I loved that book really very much. All his other novels are of course good, but nothing touched me that much.

What if…? is hilarious! It’s really worth reading.

I also enjoyed Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. I tried reading more of his work this year, but was sorely disappointed. Am going to try The Sun Also Rises next year, which many say was his best novel.

Thanks for the recommendation of What If…? It sounds like a great book to have when you need a laugh.

The app has a section for free audiobooks and a section for ones you can buy, but the free ones are all Librivox recordings!

Hi! Thanks for stopping by! I think the free audiobooks probably come from this site? https://librivox.org/ Older books are often so much better than modern books. There are exceptions to both but older definitely doesn’t mean worse. Yes, exactly I know this about Pride and Prejudice. I think when the time comes I’ll try to find it on some public domain source.

Also Pride and Prejudice was written in 1813 😉

Hahaha, I’m hopeless 😆

I think they wrote the books based on the series 🙂

I know 🙂 That’s why I asked you.

I wouldn’t recommend any of that:)).

“poorly written nonsense” – THAT is my strongest fear! I’m all in for “make-orientated”. I find many “female-orientated” books are not interesting for me. I used to read Soviet sci-fi when I was a teen, but I think it’s different, philosophic maybe, but also in a very …soviet (?) way. I’m anyway not an expert now, I read it such a long time ago.