Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
phenomenal stuff from an acclaimed writer I’ve never previously encountered
Tag: cnf
Notes Made While Falling by Jenn Ashworth
some notes on Notes Made While Falling, EXACTLY my kinda book
Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark
a spectacular sex memoir (the memoir is spectacular (and maybe the sex was too))
Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney
chasing tornadoes and remembering pasts
‘a timeline’ and ‘borderline personality disorder’ from the pleasure of regret – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
more from my 2022-shot web series, this time on diagnoses and the passage of time
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
strict taboos put us all in danger: smh on fred + rose west
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
small white monkeys by Sophie Collins
serious, excellent, short book on trauma
Mothers Don’t by Katixa Agirre
If you do not feel or even believe in love, then how and why would you bring others into the nightmare that is existence?
The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom
boooorrrrriiiiinnnggg
The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Thriftwood: A Personal History of Scouting by Alice Wickenden
great memoir about youth and scouting
Jarett Kobek & the Zodiac Killer (Motor Spirit & The Hunt for Zodiac)
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
Triumph Of The Now 