"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?
This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...
May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep
Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)
Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book
Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West
Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book
The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)
The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails
Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills
The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare
The Letters of Rachel Henning
The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play
The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"
The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.
Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")
Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.
Wait I found it:
R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett
Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane
The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:
ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa
半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba
Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)
Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!
Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)
oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"
I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)
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Last movie: oppenheimer... 2 months ago. i really don't watch movies often
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Currently reading: omniscient reader's viewpoint because francesca evakant recommended it <3 but it's so long it will probably take me a year to finish it (i only read 12% so far) :') i'm usually reading it on the bus to work and i missed my stop twice this month lmaoo
i'm also reading ツバキ文具店 by ito ogawa (tsubaki stationery store?? it doesn't have an official eng translation) and it's so cozy and perfect for the end of summer/early autumn days
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* 今週もありがとうございました。 * ご近所のmomo coffeeの @momocoffee_roaster 奥様のお母さんが貸してくださった書籍「ツバキ文具店」 * 文具店なのですが手紙の代書をしているというお話し。 * 鎌倉が舞台の季節の描写も、ストーリーも引き込まれるのですが、依頼される手紙に合わせて選ぶ紙や筆記用具が色々と出てきます。 気持ちを伝える為になぜそれを選ぶのか詳しく書いてあってとても面白かったです * 今度この本がドラマ化されるとのこと。挿絵の文具店がどんな風に再現されるのか楽しみです。 * 本日祝日営業だった為、明日3/21火は振替店休日とさせて頂きます。 * #ありがとうスイッチ #ツバキ文具店 (アイデアスイッチ)
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小川糸のツバキ文具店を読んでいたらわたしも手紙を書きたくなった。わたしの手紙は長い。でも長ければいいってものでもないことを本の中のQPちゃんから教わった気がする。
宛先はあの子。仕事の空き時間に書きたいことをまとめて、家に帰って下書き。そして清書。だいぶシンプルな手紙になった。いらないことは書かないようにした。82円で今なら届くけど、10月から84円に値上がりするらしい。
きっと週末、あの子は温泉に一緒に行く女に告白して恋人になって帰ってくるだろうから最後の手紙かな。今までで一番きれいな手紙を書いた気がした。
♡2019/08/26/22:24
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