The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
reading the best of books in the worst of times
Author: scottmanleyhadley
I like to read but little else. I have bad mental health and a dog. And a baby. And no hair. And a blog.
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
thoughts on avoiding the canon
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
the underwater welder by jeff lemire
spooky graphic novel
Tender Omnibus
exceptional omnibus from NY publisher Tender Buttons
Cane by Jean Toomer
ok toomer
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
without a call to violence, this is fantasy
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
this is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
more mediocre writing slash “lauded genre writing”
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
the building i live in got on fire in lockdown
The Broken Spears by Miguel León-Portilla (ed.)
historical documents on colonisation of Mexico translated from Nahuatl
Two Lives by Janet Malcolm
great literary biography but not AS GREAT as other malcolm i’ve read
My Word Is My Bond by Roger Moore (with Gareth Owen)
a pointless read, wasting time
the governesses by anne serre
parkdale in the pandemic
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
distracting the self with heady genre fiction
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
We Are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner
it’s the pandemic and it’s now
The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates
a surprisingly great short novel that might be hateful
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
i read escapist fiction and attempt escapist walking
Dark Days by James Baldwin
the strangeness of lockdown becomes the new normal
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Look Back In Anger by John Osborne
further disintegration as i read a play that hasn’t aged well
Faustine by Emma Tennant
sense begins to disperse as unemployment looms
Wormholes by John Fowles
a collection of essays
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
Dinosaur by Adam Lock
an intriguing text, tho a last chapter I hated
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
i, basic, enjoy some popular fiction
In the House of My Father by Hiwot Adilow
another kooky blog post
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Who the f*ck is Malcolm Gladwell?
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
essentially a review of my new meds
Colorless [sic] Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
i enjoy a haruki murakami for the first time in years!
the red and the black by stendhal
a stream of blogsciousness
The Book of Newcastle, edited by Angela Readman & Zoe Turner
lovely anthology from Comma Press
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Maybe I’ve grown out of peripatetic flaneur type novels?
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
i’m distracted
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
An Underground Guide To Sewers by Stephen Halliday
great book on the history of subterranean poo tubes
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
very early protest against colonialism
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
a great novel but mainly me whinging about winter
The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
poetry by a then dying, now dead, young poet
fledging by Octavia E. Butler
vampires yes please and too long sentences
NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt
strong canadian poems
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
great book of pomes
New Model Island by Alex Niven
england is dead and it owes u no living
Triumph Of The Now 