This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff
This is the third memoir about “growing up” in the second half of the 20th-century I’ve read in a rowContinue Reading
Month: January 2014
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
This is a set text for my MA twice over, so this has been touted as a book that isContinue Reading
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O’Donoghue
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted is a recent memoir by John O’Donoghue, a man who spent his teens and twentiesContinue Reading
On Appreciating Graham Greene
I just reread Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as it’s being discussed in a class I have this week.Continue Reading
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman’s Maus is famous. And serious. And acclaimed. And important. And canonical. And worthy. There is very little I canContinue Reading
Shall We Gather At The River by Peter Murphy
I picked this novel up from a massive pile of free books offered by my university a few weeks beforeContinue Reading
Ostrich by Matt Greene
The eighth book I’ve finished n 2014, and finally an absolute FUCKING BELTER. Ostrich by Matt Greene is a beautiful,Continue Reading
The Accidental by Ali Smith
I read and enjoyed Ali Smith’s There But For The whilst travelling last Summer, and was recently recommended this as aContinue Reading
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
This is a bloody strange book. I was initially led to this postmodern 1960s American mystery-thrillery-comedy due to my enjoymentContinue Reading
Lunar Caustic by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry’s books are all about depression and alcoholism. And most of them he was too drunk and sad toContinue Reading
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Errr… Wow. I’m almost feeling vicariously post-coital after reading the cock-a-block sexed-up Tampa by Alissa Nutting. It’s got a vagina onContinue Reading
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
I haven’t changed my opinion halfway through a novel so drastically in ages. Which was a good thing, because theContinue Reading
Politics by Adam Thirlwell
I am having an absolute TRIUMPH of an evening. I have a negroni IN MY HAND, have just finished readingContinue Reading
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children took me three weeks to read. Which is an extortionately long time for me: I read Ulysses inContinue Reading
On Going To The Football
Last Saturday I did something utterly unprecedented and attended a professional football match. It feels like it happened ages ago,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 