And The Band Played On by Randy Shilts
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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
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
is all modernism doomed to fail?
Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
an absolute disgrace
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
some thoughts on toronto trams
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
dated dutch children’s fiction
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
some over-hyped Gen Xey essays
Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savičević
some more great balkan writing
The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
A 1952 Nigerian classic, bad coffee and chasing Canadian healthcare
The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
a good but simpler follow up to The Glorious Heresies
Selected Short Stories by H.G. Wells
some classic sci-fi
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
an excellent essay on ethics
The North Water by Ian McGuire
some proper bloody man’s fiction: great, if that’s your thingaling
How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
i whinge about unexpected canadian expenses and read a solid novel
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
mediocre prose and a child bride: time to cancel Poe
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Mentors by Francis M. Naumann
spend an odd, enjoyable, few hours with a charming old man
Granta 104: Fathers
more writing on fathers
Tentacle by Rita Indiana
a fantastic contemporary novella
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
getting sad again in the bleak northern winter
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
when did a white man last write a GREAT novel?
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
an enjoyable but intellectually presumptive novella
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
Preacher: Book Five by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
back on old school bullsh*t
The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
a creepy novel about grooming
Travels With Myself And Another by Martha Gellhorn
another racist travel book
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
in the relentless cold I seek escape
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
impressive, emotive, historical
Sex In Society by Alex Comfort
hubba hubba hubba
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
beautiful grown-up time travel
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
some creepy southern Gothic…
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
short post that took a month to not write
Eulogy for Josephine Bunyan
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
i found a book in the street
Scott Manley Hadley’s More Triumphant 2018
well i had a good year
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
a very good contemporary novel
Found Diary Entry from April 17th, 2010
bizarre note to self from 2010
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
Auto Da Fé by Elias Canetti
the worst book I can remember reading
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
an underwhelming but important read
Triumph Of The Now 