The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
a painfully light read; an utterly pointless book
Category: Book Review
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
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
i move thru 2021 like a dying ghost
one day I read 5ive plays by Arthur Miller
on january 2nd, 2021, i read FIVE arthur miller plays
The Magus: A Revised Version by John Fowles
sleazy, sexy, postmodern novel
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson
great little recent book from one of literature’s best
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
Notes on Four Books I Read Months Ago
notes on four books i read earlier in the year
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
The Seep by Chana Porter
very gen x “internet is bad” vibes
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
another entry where i get weirdly pro death penalty
Sharks In The Time of Saviors [sic] by Kawai Strong Washburn
but sharks are evil, right?
Out of Time by James P Hogan
descends into a rant about frottage
the heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
not a sacco sh*it
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
South and West by Joan Didion
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
Noted Poet Andrew McMillan enjoys the pleasure of regret
“it’s great”, he tweeted
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
phenomenal, wise, novel about the great migration and the manipulation of white working class resentment
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
i eavesdrop on some people planning a big party night then go home and read nerdy fiction; bored
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
Triumph Of The Now 