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Match Book, Nicole Lamy connects readers with book suggestions based on
their questions, their tastes, their literary needs and desires.
Dear Match Book,
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Dear Match Book,
I’m
wondering if you can help me discover books for my husband, who is not a
big reader. I am, however, and since I’ve become his personal librarian over the years, he reads more than he might otherwise.
He
is a scientist by training, an entrepreneur by vocation and an avid
gardener and naturalist. He prefers realistic books with a strong sense
of place or landscape, and mainly, but not exclusively, novels.
One
book that both of us love and reread regularly is “Little, Big,” by
John Crowley. Another favorite is “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson. He
loved “The Shipping News,” by Annie Proulx, and “The Greenlanders,” by
Jane Smiley. He was bemused by Halldor Laxness’s
“Independent People.”
He likes “Pale Fire,” by Vladimir Nabokov, in part because it is set
where we live, but he is not otherwise interested in literary games or a
distinctive style. He likes John McPhee, but that’s about as far into
nonfiction as he’ll venture. Can you make me look good by recommending books I can give him?
Source: New York Times
