video: Riyadh by Day
in early November i spent ten hours(ish) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Category: Book Review
The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré
accidentally read a serious novel when i wanted a trash
XXXMAS SPECTACULAR 2023: DADDY CHRISTMAS, HE’S GONNA COME (IF YOU WANT IT)
an xxxmas gift from me and mine to you and yours
Aftermath by Rachel Cusk
excellent short book on breaking up and live-in domestic servants
Artemisia by Anna Banti
i struggle with a post over several busy days
Conditional Tense by Antjie Krog
a serious South African book about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
video: Cyprus by Night
i spent a few hours in cyprus en route to the east
Dune 5: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
how u dune? ur dune very well if ur dune 5
Driftglass by Samuel R Delany
time passes but the present and the futures we imagine don’t
Dead As A Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #5)
some of my best friends are the vampires from True Blood
Adorable by Ida Marie Hede
reflections-on-a-serious-book-as-i-begin-my-journey-to-the-west
Journey to the East by Herman Hesse
on travel when depressed: it’s a balm, a binge, a fling, that feels good but fixes nothing
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
havin a live laugh love moment like a much simpler poet
The Hill of Devi by E.M. Forster
reading another of Forster’s late, weak (maybe pointless?) books
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
is it manic pixie incest dream girl or is it actually very good???
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
thoughts on a book read on a trip
Monkey In The Ruins Volume Three: Pripyat & the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone by Mark Beechill
a short text about visiting that Chernobyl as a tourist
A Load of Shit by John Berger
some notes on a pamphlet on poo
Mermaid Fillet by Mia Arderne
arguable masterpiece from a south african indie press
Drive Your Plough Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
refreshing, uplifting and far from cloying depiction of someone living an ideal life
The Crystal World by JG Ballard
my dog’s toy duck is named “jg mallard” but i dont mention that in the post
The Wind Blows Away Our Words by Doris Lessing
getting political with Doris in the eighties
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
an interesting Sudanese novel from the sixties
Malcolm Lowry: A Preface To His Fiction by Richard K. Cross
a fun read for a Lowry fan but probably little interest for others
Dead To The World by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #4)
the sookie stackhouse fun continues
Kanye West Superstar by Byron Crawford
eeeeee it’s a little bit sexist
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
interesting intellectualised essay on the beauty of physical literary archives
video: a weekend trip to North West Wales
a weekend trip to wales in the rain
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
Call For The Dead by John Le Carré
are you a #bondboy or #smileyman?
Under The Banner of King Death by David Lester & Marcus Rediker
oh, a pirate’s life for me (without the fish-based diet and violence)
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
there is enough in the world for everyone to have enough; we’ve got to fucking fix things, we have to fucking fix things
video: noise.piece.solo.voice.versace
one more video of me playing by (not with) myself on my recent birthday
Pleasure Beach by Helen Palmer
if u love literature like i do you’ll love this
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
stream of consciousness response to reading an illustrated short story
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
contemporary capitalist society is a dead end death cult – and baybe we all believe
video: noise.piece.plasticwind.versace
live noise play from my recent birthday using 3d-printed instruments
World Running Down by Al Hess
reading too much SF cuz im on a psychological downswing that wont end unless/until i change the material conditions of my life which i am trying to do
video: do expresso beneath at tree
watch me make a expresso in a lay-by – with lovely crema!
The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
how would people act if they already knew how they were gonna act???
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
phenomenal novel from a storytelling expert – essentially flawless??? (i loved it and im so depressed i take pleasure from nothing)
video: jane in safari
a conversation/ video piece about a recent safari
Play The Devil by Scott Laudati
i read a fun picaresque novel but remembered how much i hate my name
Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #3)
book 3 of the true blood novels continues to thrill and spill [blood]
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
Resistance by Julian Fuks
quite a serious shortish book it’s easy to make sound good (which doesn’t mean it was???)
In The Shadow of the Springs I Saw by Barbara Adair
excellent polyvocal south african indie press book about an art deco district
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
read a book abour time travel while on holiday (yes, that’s an elephant)
Reunion by Fred Uhlman
a tiny novella with a lot going on
Triumph Of The Now 