The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
a bland book for my bland life
Category: Book Review
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
A Dog’s Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
six weeks late, it’s the TotN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021!
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Library of America, 1998)
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
voice to text fragment: The power by Naomi alderman
voice to text fragment from summer/autumn 2021
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
while we seek relief in schadenfreude over self-esteem, the world will never be fixed
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
a doris lessing dystopia
Grievers by adrienne maree brown
great speculative fiction; scott visits quebec city
Apocalypse by DH Lawrence
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark (Influx Press, 2020)
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
Showa: A History of Japan 1926 – 1939 by Shigeru Mizuki
interesting entry-level text about modern Japanese history
Dune by Frank Herbert
yes it’s a book for incels, but it’s not bad!!!
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
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
Triumph Of The Now 