Anonymous asked:

what do you think about ken follett? or jonathan safran foer? just curious ;) love your blog too much <3

Thanks for the message!

Jonathan Safran Foer is a good storyteller when I’m in the mood for something sentimental. I prefer the writing of Nicole Krauss, his wife.

My dad read Ken Follett books. He thought they were inappropriate for his children to read, so he kept them taped up in a box in the garage, where they probably remain to this day. In the interim, books like the Game of Thrones series and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series have raised our collective tolerance for graphic sex and gratuitous violence so much that, in hindsight, my dad’s parental concern about Ken Follett seems almost quaint, and also unnecessary because I was never interested in reading Ken Follett anyway. If I’m in the mood for an espionage thriller, I prefer to read something by Graham Greene.