A Man In Love: My Struggle Book Two by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A Death In The Family revolutionised the way I thought about literature. The honesty, the transparency, in Knausgaard’s autobiographical proseContinue Reading
A Death In The Family revolutionised the way I thought about literature. The honesty, the transparency, in Knausgaard’s autobiographical proseContinue Reading
I decided to treat the whole of 1Q84 as a single novel, rolling through from the first volume to theContinue Reading
At the risk of losing my hard-won feminist credentials, I’m not certain I really enjoyed this. The first hundred pagesContinue Reading
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This is a very serious book. It’s a deeply realist exploration of a single day in a Soviet-era prison camp,Continue Reading
This is absolutely my kind of thing. Stylistically experimental, full of various exploratory digressions and displaying a full and rounded insightContinue Reading
This is a strange and complex novel. A long, winding, dense and serious tome that manages to be set hundredsContinue Reading
This book was a Christmas present. So I didn’t buy/choose it myself. I went in blind. James Frey is anContinue Reading
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace When this is good, this is very, very good. When it’sContinue Reading
One of the main reasons why I’ve set this up is in order to (intelligently) review what I read, getContinue Reading