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Theres a lot of psychological research about how people overcome aversions.
For example: Eating terrifically spicy foods is a painful experience that many individuals nonetheless enjoy.
But nobody gobbles habaneros from birth.
Researchers have used the (very cool) term hedonic reversal to describe the flip from disliking to liking.
The mechanism by which it happens remains a tantalizing mystery.
It happens with books, too.
Take the new Sally Rooney novel.
I abandon books like a drunken sailor and in another mood, I might have tossed Rooney overboard.
Was there more where that came from?
I simply had to know.
This is the sort of premise that will either send a shiver of pleasure up your spine (operations!
or send you skipping directly to the next blurb, in which case: toodles.
Marie is the teenager in question.
(I am not sure which; it was either the French king or the English king.)
But Marie is never wrong!
Soon she is the most powerful person in all the land.
But you know what they say about absolute power … (And to my mind, better.)
One, it is a novel that is named after aprinter.
Two, it is a book with a title that strongly and misleadingly suggests it is a sequel.
When shes not trespassing on university property, Claire performs triage on laptops and processors.
Both artist and writer have a taste for commonplace nonevents.
The reasons you may like or dislike their works are the same.
One person will see that string of contradictory descriptors above and go, Gimme.
Another person will think, Nope.
One of the characters inBeautiful World, Where Are Youis, like Rooney, a successful young Irish novelist.
If youre not a Sally Rooney fan, this novel wont convert you.
If you are, its bulk and ambition and subtly bizarre mode of narration will be pleasing.
GetDIRTYANDNERDYwithLexicon, Max Barrys goosebump-inducing dystopian thriller?
(I swear!)
Throw yourself headlong into theTORNADO OF CHAOSthat is theprotagonistof Sara LevinesTreasure Island!!!
especially if you enjoyed the television programFleabag?
SUGGESTED PAIRING
Pair the years dwindling beach days with Mabel SeeleysThe Chuckling Fingers, a Nancy-Drew-for-adults-style crimecaper!
