fledging by Octavia E. Butler
vampires yes please and too long sentences
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strong canadian poems
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MY WORST READS OF 2019
the worst books I read in 2019: is your favourite here? probably u loser
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Xmas Spectacular 2019
santa come back
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom by Sylvia Plath
terrible plath juvenilia published nicely for profit
The Irish by Sean O’Faolain
self-hating, self-erasing history of Ireland
Lift Every Voice, edited by Christine Taylor
little review of a strong anthology
The Man Within by Graham Greene
greene’s messy horny debut
of is by Aisha Sasha John
i read some local poetry
Native Son by Richard Wright
surprisingly good protest novel; thoughts on UK election result
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
still working too much; brief notes on celibacy as sexual practice
Story of O by Pauline Réage
a real dirty french novel
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
a not-dirty-enough-to-be-dirty french novel
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó
when we reminisce we may as well be dead
People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck
an essential contemporary memoir
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
some naughty naughty monks
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
Love, Pan-Fried by Gray Crosbie
great queer flash fiction from scotland
Most of my Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps by Ran Walker
brief comments on a collection of kwansabas
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
reading about dragons again lol
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
The Mask That Sang by Susan Currie
impressive, purposeful, children’s fiction
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg
a cracking novella about a terrible murderous marriage
Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement by H. Montgomery Hyde
some strange, unpalatable, vintage true crime
Lilith’s Brood by Octavia E. Butler
read a massive book about aliens like a nerd
Cruising by Alex Espinoza
Are you done with the sofa, floor, kitchen table, baby?
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
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…
Solid Bald – Abba Bald (Dancing Queen)
birthday song performance
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
Triumph Of The Now 