The Last Samurai (no relation to Tom Cruise movie) – Helen DeWitt

Where has this book been all my life?

My son took over my reading TBR this year (excluding audio) and I have a list I’m to complete by the end of the year. The list is called Eat Your Vegetables. Thus far they’ve been (mostly) bangers. There are some challenging reads (Moby Dick) and some intimidating ones to come (The Tunnel, Septology) ….

This book was phenomenal.

I’ve been a lifelong reader and been consuming 75-125 books a year for the last 20 years, HOW HAS THIS BOOK ESCAPED MY RADAR? It makes me angry. I want BookTok to focus on something like this rather than the stupid Correspondent.

To spend a couple hours in DeWitt’s brain. Like – HOLY CRAP! this is genius. She’s hilarious, incredibly smart, interested in the most random topics and created this utterly charming loveable infuriating child.

Can more people please read this? It’s almost 600 pages that go by fast, I promise. You’ll wish it wasn’t over.

The Last Samurai – so obviously 5/5 stars I almost forgot that part