47 -- Self-Insert By An Author

[Devika]

I took the prompt suggestion and read The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz’. I loved it - and now planning on reading the rest of the series.

[Louise]

I might read Flirty Little Secret. Someone who read it says the author has a note that she wrote some of her own struggles into a character.

[Fisie]

I’m reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy because the character Levin is based on Tolstoy himself

[d]

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayson

[Jen]

I listened to True Crime Story by Joseph Knox & was gripped. I could not stop listening. I think it's one of those books that works better as an audiobook, a performance, than a physical book.

Lots of twists & turns, & I didn't see the ending coming (I rarely do) It's a different book that may not appeal to everyone, a Marmite book. I can see how some reading it may struggle at times as it switches between multiple characters all the way through.

For those wanting more than 1 prompt per book - this is set in Manchester, GB, so fits 47 & 49.

[Lucilla]

I read The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie. I liked it, but since it was so short I might also read The Sentence by Louise Erdrich.

[Dace]

I read Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin. It's sometimes not clear if Pushkin writes about himself or his "friend" Onegin, sometimes they blend together.

[Dace]

Fey wrote: "I’m reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy because the character Levin is based on Tolstoy himself"

It's a great novel and an excellent self-insert.

[Julie]

I chose Jaded. Even if the book isn't 100% autobiographical (unconfirmed, I think?), both the MC and author are half Turkish/half Korean, raised in London, worked in law etc.

[Andrea]

I am reading Ghost by Jason Reynolds.
I've been struggling to find a good book for this prompt, but I was given this book to transcribe for a student.
The book is an Own Voices book. Jason Reynolds is a Black man writing about a young Black boy who is trying to push past his fear and past and find his passion. Jason Reynolds has said that this finding passion is "the premise of my life and a regular theme for me."
So I think this adequately fulfills the self-insert prompt!
The story itself is also very intriguing and also an interesting genre for me, as I rarely read sports books.

[Karen]

I am reading Anna Karenia for this category. I am down to the last 225 pages. I just want it over with! Not that I haven’t enjoyed the story, I just wish he wouldn’t go off in tangents and with much less details.

[Priya]

I just finished Symphony of Secrets and there is a self-insert where the main character is listening to music and one of the songs he is listening to is by a band that the author is in IRL.

By the way, a GREAT book by a wonderful author. Here's my review: Priya Kumar Bradfield's review of Symphony of Secrets.

[Eric]

I listened to The Gold Coast on Audible. Had originally planned this for another prompt, but discovered that this is regarded as the most autobiographical novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, with the main character sharing a lot of similarities with KSR.

[Kim]

I read Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup. I gave it 4 stars.

[Michelle]

Yellowface

[Martina]

The Princess Bride would do perfectly, I suppose.

[Kelly]

“Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut has Vonnegut in it as a character but it is one of the most disgusting books I have read! There are chapters devoted to sexual organs. Yuk!

[Kim]

The word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz or an Agatha Christie book.

[Christine]

Would Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil work for this?

[Verix]

Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is practically written from Vonnegut's perspective; the narrator, mostly seen in the first chapter, is fairly clearly Vonnegut's self-insert and set up to be unreliable from the start.

[Shonna]

I interpreted this a little differently and read the nonfiction book My European Family: the First 54,000 Years by Karin Bojs, in which she looks at human migration and DNA using her own family as an example.
https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024...

[Annette]

I used ‘The Trial’ by Rob Rinder, debut book used his experience and knowledge for the story. Really enjoyed it

[Vi]

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

[Becki]

11/22/63

[Nicole]

i used I Was a Teenage Slasher for this prompt.

[Kristi]

I read Date Me, Bryson Keller by Kevin van Whye.

[Carol]

I read Everybody In My Family Has Killed Someone. It is listed for this prompt, but I am not totally sure if it fits so I might read some thing else.

[Renee]

I read The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans. This book would fit in with prompts about having a phobia or an omniscient narrator.

[JoJo]

I just finished reading The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

[Tamara]

I read "The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell & The Fate of the Artist" by Eddie Campbell

[Nikki]

I see Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston on the list...does anyone know how this one works as an author self-insert? It's high up on my TBR...would love to use it for this prompt.

[Inger 🌸]

I read The Woman In Me by Britney Spears

[Heather]

The Bookbinder's Guide to Love by Katherine Garbera

[Holly]

Little Women

[Lindsey]

I read Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie, 3 Stars

[Leonore]

The Divine Comedy by Danté Alighieri