Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
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Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
Two x Pierre Senges
didn’t like these tbh
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
digression-free thoughts on a dull novel
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
is the conscious or the subconscious mind the most potent agent in our lives
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
a few weeks ago I read an excellent novel
On Decline by Andrew Potter
I spent time yawning at an out-of-touch Gen X screed
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
i read another book i probably wouldn’t read if i had self-respect
Rhinoceros by Luke Thompson
small post on a great non-fiction text
The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
a super engaging contemporary sci-fi novel that sacrifices characterisation for an excess of plot
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
war, hmmm, what *is* it good for?
The Last Days of Mankind
taxidermied rats telling a tale as old as time (100 years of time)
The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Zora Neale Hurston (and a state-mandated medical exam)
in which the canadian state tests me for TB & syphilis
Thrillers #1 (Hilton, Keene, Hillerman, Friedman)
still in a genre rut i can’t escape
Old Sci-Fi (Keyes, Wells, Pohl, Aldiss) & Mass Graves
they keep finding mass graves of children
Comics #1 (Lemire, Moore, R.A.I.D)
read some comics wuhey
Books About Cinema, Books About Film
books on film (to the tune of ‘Girls On Film’)
Nnedi Okorafor
three genre books
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
a painfully light read; an utterly pointless book
VIDEO: Toronto Street Art: ‘First Timeline’ by Philip Cote, Kwest & Jarus
short doc inspired by Heinz Emigholz
As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
powerful academic text on the impossibility of decolonisation within capitalistic structures
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
powerful stuff on racism, colonialism and botched governmental attempts to move on
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
the final book in Doris Lessing’s sci-fi quintet
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 by Doris Lessing
a perfect novella and a glorious personal essay
The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing
book three in doris lessing’s space opera quintet
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) by Doris Lessing
part two of doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
on sleaze via Saul Bellow
sleaze is not a synonym for prurience
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin
no future until vaccination / please i need future
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
Poetics of Work by Noemi Lefebvre
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
Fictionalising Fascism
don’t be stupid, be a smarty / read fiction ’bout the nazi party
Roman Around: Three Imperial Paperbacks
there were emperors; i am emperbored
Puffin’s Canadian Children’s Classics
read some local children’s fiction; mostly bad
Valentino and Sagittarius by Natalia Ginzburg
the lockdown continues and nothing changes
Lake of Urine by Guillermo Stitch
peepee not for me
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
groovy 1970s fiction
Triumph Of The Now 