What I read when autumn hit hard. Books that mattered that month.
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Fall literary season brought this one. Thomas is a shrink. His patient Anna just met Yves, who writes. Same day, Thomas meets Louise. Two love affairs ignite. Two instant connections. Two forbidden couples. Louise and Anna both married elsewhere. The geometry of desire gets complicated fast.
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Sam Pulsifer grew up drowning in books. Dad was a publisher. Mom taught literature. At eighteen he torched Emily Dickinson's house. Two people died. An accident, sure. But accidents have consequences. This book takes dark comedy seriously.
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Eduardo de Filippo ranks as Italy's biggest playwright of the 20th century after Pirandello. But nobody knows him. Comédie Française fixed that by putting The Grand Magic in their repertoire. Written in 1948, this play still cuts deep.
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History's absurd quests: Don Quixote versus windmills. The Monkey Wrench Gang restoring the desert. Now add whale hunting in frozen nowhere. Frédéric Roux gives us another doomed mission, beautifully pointless and completely necessary.
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October 1959. Michel turns twelve. Birthday in troubled times. Cold War raging. Algerian War bleeding. At home, another cold war. An iron curtain divides his family. Michel finds refuge with exiled intellectuals who still believe in something.
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I love autumn. My season. Born into it. Love its colors, its light, its bite in the air. Love its rewards too: mushrooms, chestnuts, pumpkins. Then SD49 tagged me asking about autumn pleasures. Here's my answer.
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"I am awake." Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) is fifty. Married forever to a much older publisher (Alan Arkin). She's the perfect wife: beautiful, elegant, smiling, smart, kind to everyone. Then something cracks. The sleepwalking starts.
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They moved to New York excited. Rachel: British lawyer, corporate firm. Hans: Dutch financial analyst, big bank. Then September 11 happened. She left. He stayed. Hans drifts through a wounded city, playing cricket with immigrants, looking for something solid.
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Mia is fifteen and furious. Quit school. Fights constantly with her immature mother. Lost her friends. Only speaks in curses. Then her mom brings home a new boyfriend. Everything shifts. Andrea Arnold shoots raw reality without flinching.
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Indigenous peoples and World War I trenches seem worlds apart. But North American Indians fought in the Great War. Joseph Boyden wrote this to honor them. Two Cree snipers. One canoe journey home. Stories that need telling.
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