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WeeklyThread What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: October 19, 2026

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u/GruyereRind 8d ago

Finished:

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, by Elena Ferrante. Great. These books feel more like one epic masterpiece split into parts than like a series.

The Mother, by Grazia Deledda. Good.

The Pilgrim of Castile, by Lope de Vega. Kind of boring. The thing where characters disguise themselves, are unrecognizable to their closest friends, and finally reveal their identity much later than they should have seems to be the only storytelling device the author knows.

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, by Timothy Dexter. Unreadable garbage, but not in a good way.

Started:

The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante. The final book in the quartet. I don't want it to end.

But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, by Anita Loos. The sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It's even funnier than the original. Lorelei continues to delight and we get to delve into Dorothy's past. Spending more time in the Gentlemen Verb Nouns literary universe is pure joy.

A Nobleman's Nest, by Ivan Turgenev. I just started but it seems good. Turgenev doesn't disappoint.