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Couple of books I really enjoyed recently:
The Magician by Colm Tóibín - a fictional retelling of the life of Thomas Mann. It's amazing what he lived through. He's not always a very sympathetic character but the telling doesn't suffer from it.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim - 1920s fiction with two suburban women making a very out-of-character plan to escape from their everyday lives with a month in an Italian villa. There's no way of explaining it that does it justice. Funny and well written.
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker - she's a hell of a writer. Funny, vivid, rude. I love that she's an 80+ year old woman writing gleefully about anal sex and blowjobs.