Hello, friends!
There are books that you love that have also captured the hearts of many other readers. Titles like Station Eleven, James, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The God of the Woods come to mind.
But sometimes book gems seem to fly under the radar — and you want to grab a megaphone and shout, YOU NEED TO READ THIS.
I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger is so absolutely fabulous that I'm shocked not to see it more! It's especially wonderful if you are familiar with the Minnesota / Wisconsin shoreline of Lake Superior.
Ella Minnow Pea: a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable by Mark Dunn
Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the government progressively bans letters from the alphabet.