micropost – Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin
an excellent novella from le guin
Category: Book Review
Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villalonga
a “lost masterpiece” that deserved to be forgotten
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
The Con Artists by Luke Healy
short post on a recent [ graphic novel / comic book ] (delete to your preference)
The Other Name by Jon Fosse (Septology I-II)
slow fiction with relentless structure
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like
Cat Step by Alison Irvine
digression-free review of a moving, hopeful, realist novel
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
posh ominous australian fiction
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
astounded by the brilliance of this mid-20th century arthurian novel
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined by JJ Bola
an interesting introduction to progressive gender studies that every teenage lad should read!
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
read a great book about a very bad person and a very bad place
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
a literary zombie novel. does it work? oh yes it works!
Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
Another Country by James Baldwin
another hagiography on Baldwin as scott packs up his north american life
MICROPOST: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
tiny review of a space opera that’s perfect for a holiday read
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
vampires don’t count as supernatural horror because they’re too sexy aha
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Ambergris by Jeff VanderMeer
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
Internet Crusader by George Wylesol
a very millennial internet-set graphic novel – i enjoyed a lot
Black Blizzard by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
a manga from the 1950s
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
fiction about child soldiers that felt a little underdone
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
repression at the end of the world
Canopus by Dave Chisholm
quick read, a fun sci-fi psychological thriller!
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed
during a brief solo trip to Montreal, scott reads a blistering take-down of the musical Hamilton and makes a personal announcement
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Passing by Nella Larsen (Norton Critical Edition)
a stunning harlem renaissance novel; scott muses on the hangover of growing up in a cultural desert
Guyana by Élise Turcotte
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
How to Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm
it’s self-evidently time for eco-terrorism. This book asks, “is it time for eco-terrorism?”
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Red X by David Demchuk
reality is evil enough… i do not *get* supernatural horror
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
a bland book for my bland life
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History by Jamie Mackay
in the middle of another canadian winter, i depressingly read about a warm, interesting, place
Tired by Joe Bielecki
dreamlike, dystopian, prose-poetry adjacent fiction
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
anarchist propaganda makes perfect sense!
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
an excellent – near flawless – novel
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
struck down by covid, scott crawls into a classic novel
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
a hyper-cautious novel about archetypes avoids offence but also characterisation
Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
Triumph Of The Now 