An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
a bleak future that looks a lot like the bleak past
Category: Book Review
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
a book about some of the worst people in the world
Ghost Clinic by Nathaniel King
hauntology is not just a spotify playlist
American Vampire #1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque & Stephen King
a comic book that’s errr fine i suppose
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
some prix added a terrible poem to the end of a cracking book of stories
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
excellent novel about a dickhead dicking about like a dick
Protected: No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (full review)
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No Quiet Water by Shirley Miller Kamada (summary)
an important topic, at least?
A Spy In Time by Imraan Coovadia
a book that disproves a rule: this could have been longer!
Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin
read a little guin
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman
great very short book that never gets *that* weird
The Carnivorous Plant by Andrea Mayo
an excellent (maybe?) novel about an abusive relationship
Going Home by Doris Lessing
doris lessing returns to the southern rhodesia of her youth
Nuclear War in the UK by Taras Young
the history of an apocalypse that never happened (yet)
Writin’ Dirty: An Anthology by Byron Crawford
this is a blog post on a book of blog posts
We Were Younger Once by Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet
lovely graphic memoir from a small Canadian indie
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
the stories are short but the misogyny is loooooong
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
The Ipcress File by Lee Deighton
makes ian fleming look like hanya yanagihara
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Black American Psycho by Ernest Baker
solid novel recommended in Only Americans Burn In Hell
The Employees – a workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn
a terrifying future draws grim parallels to the present
Can the monster speak? by Paul B. Preciado
arguments to make the world better in language that can only make it worse
Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
small white monkeys by Sophie Collins
serious, excellent, short book on trauma
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
One Thing by Xanthi Barker
deeply affecting, affectingly deep
Embassytown by China Mieville
i suppose this book is excellent?
the discworld graphic novels adapted from Terry Pratchett by Scott Rockwell & illustrated by Steven Ross
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
med free and hating life lol 😜
Never Seen The Sea by Holly Watson
i experience the plot of keep the aspidistra flying while reading and in retrospect for my childhood
I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
another nice book review descends into dissociated left-wing raving
You Ruin It When You Talk by Sarah Manvel
very funny novelette from hipstertopia’s Open Pen
The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
“our society is ending” borrriiiiing
Only Americans Burn In Hell by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
The Trespasser by DH Lawrence
unambitious, uncomplex, wish it had been sexier
George Michael’s Faith: 33 1/3 by Matthew Horton
an excellent small book about St. George Michael
Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy ends with a whimper (I wanted a bang)
Soft & Cuddly by 🙏 Jarett Kobek 🙏
a minor kobek is a major good read
We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
ATTA by 🙏Jarett Kobek🙏
anti 9/11, anti Richmond, pro Jarett Kobek
Solitudes by Luis de Góngora
leave this book where it belongs – 400 years ago!
the lady and the little fox fur by Violette Leduc
definitely not a recent reading highlight…
Strangers Within: Documentary as Encounter, edited by Therese Henningsen & Juliette Joffé
mostly great anthology about filmmaking and strangers that gets too academic (for me) by its end
the heart of the matter by Graham Greene
1948 novel about a sad catholic with too many girlfriends
Triumph Of The Now 