Highly highly recommend…
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T.C. Boyle is very popular in Germany. There is a podcast series from my favourite weekly newspaper and he is in the latest episode.
If you want to check it out, take some time for it. „Alles gesagt“ is a podcast that can go on for hours, because the guest can decide when „Everything is said" and end the podcast with a safe word 
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He’s in my top ten writers of all time, I absolutely adore the guy.
Tortilla Curtain should be syllabus reading IMO
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Tortilla Curtain (in German: América) is one of my favourite novels. I read it 6 times and will read it again.
The interview is in English, so if you want to listen to a beautiful piece of transatlantic communication, go for it 
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I only literally keep some books in paper/hardback. Others I pass on to charity shops or book swaps. So not much stays on my very limited shelf space. Unless it’s still unread, or incredibly special you don’t get a space Chez moi…
TC Boyle fan girl 
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I absolutely agree! Same here in my bookshelf.
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Another brilliant episode of „Alles gesagt“ with Margaret Atwood - also in English, of course:
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He is super popular with me as well!! Absolutely adore almost all of his work.
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I’ve posted this here before but I am moving through it very slowly because it is really therapeutic. Highly recommended and a huge shout out to @Tragicfarinelli for the introduction.
Oof. Healing your wounds requires looking at your wounds.
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Currently reading “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash” - it was the basis for A Christmas Story. Recently read Catcher In The Rye - got the urge to go back and re-read the “classics” that we read in high school (A Seperate Peace, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc.) to see if I’d gain a new appreciation for them since I wasn’t really immersed in them back then. I can confidently say now that thirty years later, I still hate Holden Caulfield; he’s annoying as the day is long, but I did enjoy the read, at least more than I did back then. Before that I’d read Flyboys and Flags of Our Fathers (both by James Bradley). Both were excellent and the latter might’ve made the room a bit dusty toward the end. On deck are The Ghost (about a CIA Spymaster) and Team of Rivals. I lean toward nonfiction mostly but do enjoy a break now and again.
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So I wasn’t an avid reader for awhile, but I used to read science books. I’ve recently started reading fiction and found a bunch of cheap, good books at variety village, a thrift store, and bought a few new books as well. Im more than halfway done “Anna Karenina”, I finished “Double Cross” and will be starting the science fiction series by Asimoz, the “Foundation “ series.
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Ah, that is a sweet book. Reminds me of Erma Bombeck’s writings. The movie is iconic and perfectly made.
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Just spent 3 hours in the bathtub finishing up Lily King’s, ‘Writers and Lovers’…my usual slow start …which I think is me trying to get my brain focused (life is lifeing me, big time)…after my slow start I finally got submerged (haha) in the story and writing. Writers, relationships, grief, breakdown. So worth it.
I had read her novel, ‘Euphoria’ previously…absolutely loved. Onto the next!!
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I’m currently reading A Court Of Thorns and Roses… again… 
I realized a few days ago that I had started the first book when I started choosing sobriety and with my anxiety being sooo bad at the time, I forgot a bit of it. No shame. Such a good book series!
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Short update, since you voted what I could read next: I already read No. 1, which was 8/10. No. 3 was just 4/10, but I finished it anyways. Now started No. 2, so far 9/10.
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Monstergott – Caroline Schmitt
Two siblings, lots of doubts, and a super strict religious community: rules, sermons, and plenty of eye-rolling, a personal rebellion quietly begins against a system that promises too much and demands even more. -
Der Absturz – Eduard Lewis
Everything’s going fine – until it isn’t. A novel about a spectacular low, bad decisions, and the (not always graceful) attempts to piece life back together. -
Lebensversicherung – Kathrin Bach
Life insurance sounds reassuring… until it sparks suspicion, secrets, and some very uncomfortable questions. Thrilling, surprising, and darkerly funny than you’d expect.
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Rabbits - Terry Miles
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The Body Keeps the Score is a fantastic book
So is Quiet!! Loved both of these
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I just finished Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher, and while I absolutely enjoyed it—I am at a loss about the ending. I have to chew on it for a while before I will determine if it was good or not.
Now I’m starting Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys.
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