I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
Category: Book Review
John Barleycorn by Jack London
1914 memoir about alcoholism that oozes big denial
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
great little essay i read while distracted by shitty work
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
Does It Fart? by Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
top b’day gift from my square sister
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
Utopia by Bernadette Mayer
a great book, a terrible blog
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
for fans of The Goldfinch…
Happening by Annie Ernaux
feeling sad so read a sad book on abortion
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
unprecedented: i enjoy a book of short stories cover to cover
The Sign of the Cross by Colm Tóibín
a book almost squarely aimed at me
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
i’ve found my local indie press
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
Human Tetris by Vi Khi Nao and Ali Raz
a great, new, collection of short poems about love ‘n’ sex
boomer by Scott Manley Hadley
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The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
the emotional cost of working in high end catering
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith
read some dated poetry
Preacher: Book Six by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
underwhelming end to an overlong series
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
i read a book wrong / nothing compares 2 Proust
Finding Time Again (À la recherche du temps perdu 7) by Marcel Proust
bye bye marcel, marcel bye bye
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
Ushant by Conrad Aiken
a sub-mediocre memoir
Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
impressive experimental speculative fiction
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
the first part of a lauded comic about the weimar republic
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Tango for a Torturer by Daniel Chavarría
read a trash thriller i’ve owned for a decade. fun ‘n’ frothy – and so’s the book I read lolol
Mariana by Monica Dickens
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
mainstream literary fiction that is actually worth reading
That Lonesome Valley by Melissa Lee-Houghton
some thoughts on a novel you should probably read
Blues For Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
a sad play from JB the master
The Battle for Paradise by Naomi Klein
a short post about a short, but important, book
Witchcraft by Pennethorne Hughes
a delicious 1960s Pelican about the dark arts…
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
you absolute Stein
I Hate The Internet by Jarett Kobek
the best novel I’ve read about the internet
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
short review of a wonderful poetry collection
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
great playful (tho violent!) contemporary Nigerian novel
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
a stupid person’s idea of a clever novel; fun but flimsy
The End (My Struggle Book Six) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
endings are never easy
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
an essential non-fiction read and a new documentary on its legacy
Fludd by Hilary Mantell
an early novel from a writer who’d get more exciting with age
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod
a fresh anthology that’s worth YOUR attention
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Triumph Of The Now 