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Books told in interesting ways, 2024 edition!

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Bookysh · 06/08/2024 20:54

There was a brilliant long thread last year called books told in interesting ways and I've steadily worked my way through all the books mentioned there that I hadn't already indulged in. I discovered some really fantastic reads, so thanks everyone who made a recommendation!

I especially love books told wholly or partly through letters or diaries - or text messages and the like, more recently. So I thought I'd update with a few in that style that have published in 2024, and it would be great to hear about any new ones that anyone else has discovered.

Are You My Halley Hart? by Claire McCauley is a really fun contemporary romance about a pair of young academics who are looking for each other after briefly meeting in Oxford. He's a British historian and she's an American astronomer. It's about half epistolary and the rest is 3rd person dual narrative.

A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall is cosy fantasy, in similar vein to Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Fairies, but set under the sea. It's pretty much entirely epistolary, and about two different couples, which means there isn't a lot of plot. This didn't bother me and I found it charming. It's the start of a series.

I'm sure there's another one, too, but it slips my mind. I'll peruse my Kindle then update.

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mildlydispeptic · 29/08/2024 22:48

Definitely Trust by Hernan Diaz.

Bookysh · 29/08/2024 22:37

I think I will! Trying to order paperbacks then pack them away for recovery period, as Kindle I just get absorbed immediately, but I downloaded the sample and loved it.
Will be hard to keep my hands off it!

Any more ideas for books told in interesting ways, anyone?

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SheilaFentiman · 28/08/2024 17:39

Bookysh · 28/08/2024 17:33

Thank you - I have ordered Meet Me At The Museum. From brief look, it seems right up my street!

Oh I hope you love it!

Bookysh · 28/08/2024 17:33

Thank you - I have ordered Meet Me At The Museum. From brief look, it seems right up my street!

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SheilaFentiman · 27/08/2024 00:17

Meet Me At The Museum - amazing book.

Letters between the curator of a Danish museum containing a peat preserved body and a woman in England who has wanted to see it since she was a girl. Both are of grandparent age. The development of their friendship is beautiful.

Bookysh · 24/08/2024 20:36

IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine · 13/08/2024 05:25

No one has- it's not out until the end of the month!

Oh thanks for that... was wondering why I didn't see it on shelf when I picked up one of her others!

Just finished the Heiress, which was fun, but now needing some more novels told in interesting ways if anyone has come across one recently. I'm having an op very soon with a longish recovery period so should be stocking up on the sort of books I like, but keep reading them instead of saving them!

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IdgieThreadgoodeIsMyHeroine · 13/08/2024 05:25

RockyRogue1001 · 11/08/2024 15:22

Haven't read it.

But The Appeal is fabulous and the one about the Angels is equally as good

No one has- it's not out until the end of the month!

Bookysh · 11/08/2024 15:29

I thinI got The Appeal from the library but ran out of time. I'll give it another try! And also thanks for red of The Heiress, @HopefullyHopeless - I shall take a look!

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RockyRogue1001 · 11/08/2024 15:22

Bookysh · 11/08/2024 12:37

Thanks @RockyRogue1001 - I'm not mad on mystery books but I liked the Twyford Code. Is The Examiner good?

Haven't read it.

But The Appeal is fabulous and the one about the Angels is equally as good

Bookysh · 11/08/2024 12:37

Thanks @RockyRogue1001 - I'm not mad on mystery books but I liked the Twyford Code. Is The Examiner good?

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HopefullyHopeless · 08/08/2024 14:16

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins has a few letter chapters.

RockyRogue1001 · 07/08/2024 19:07

Janice Hallet

You're welcome

Mollymandymilly · 07/08/2024 18:25

I’ve just read through the posts from last years. Several there that are new to me as well as the recent ones you list, OP. Ordering them now for my holiday.

I love Where D’you go Bernadette but that’s not come out recently.

Mollymandymilly · 06/08/2024 21:25

Oooh. I love books like this!

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