In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
the story of the lost child by elena ferrante
two and a half months ago i read an incredible novel
Cane by Jean Toomer
ok toomer
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
i’m distracted
An Underground Guide To Sewers by Stephen Halliday
great book on the history of subterranean poo tubes
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
poetry by a then dying, now dead, young poet
NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt
strong canadian poems
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
I read another great, serious, time travel novel
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
Ushant by Conrad Aiken
a sub-mediocre memoir
That Lonesome Valley by Melissa Lee-Houghton
some thoughts on a novel you should probably read
Blues For Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
a sad play from JB the master
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
great playful (tho violent!) contemporary Nigerian novel
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Queen Mob’s Teahouse: Teh Book edited by Russell Bennetts
some inevitably biased hagiography
How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
i whinge about unexpected canadian expenses and read a solid novel
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
getting sad again in the bleak northern winter
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
in the relentless cold I seek escape
An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
beautiful grown-up time travel
Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
short post that took a month to not write
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
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
an underwhelming but important read
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Review by L. Tumbleweed Parker. CW: ableist language
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
Poem 66 by Susana Medina
a Wide Sargasso Sea for Lolita
Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
chapbook review that turns into me recounting my entire relationship with sex
Drunken Baker by Barney Farmer
the bottle salves but doesn’t heal
Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
good, serious, accessible poems
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
i read a book that’s aged badly and reflect on bad times
Notes on ‘Camp’ by Susan Sontag
my past changes shape as my future brightens
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
so much depends upon triumphofthenow.com
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
in a world without books, why can everybody read???
Jackdaws by Neil Campbell
a return to prose and a whine about violence
Maiden by Karina Bush
poetry review PLUS why I am now a poet
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Triumph Of The Now 