Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
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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
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
a painfully light read; an utterly pointless book
VIDEO: Toronto Street Art: ‘First Timeline’ by Philip Cote, Kwest & Jarus
short doc inspired by Heinz Emigholz
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
Not Really A Review of Not Really A Year
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Madhur Anand
a blog about a book (yes i do still do these)
Four New Songs
solid bald sings four times again
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
Triumph Of The Now 