THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB EPISODE FIVE – To Kill A Mockingbird
it’s a great novel, but maybe not so great to chat about while trying to keep things light
Tag: death
Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse #2); obituary for Katherine Jane Kaszas
actually an obit for my late mother-in-law, Katherine Jane Kaszas
THE BIG BALD BOOK CLUB EPISODE FOUR – Under The Hawthorn Tree
a conversation about some heinous historical wrongs
Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #6)
dune to myself as i would dune to others
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
a chilling book on the terrifying consequences of unrepresssed sexuality
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
a solid memoir about the importance of food… and cancer
The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger, edited by Rene Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara and Jonah Walters
now that’s what i call henry kissenger
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
thoughts on a book read on a trip
The Wind Blows Away Our Words by Doris Lessing
getting political with Doris in the eighties
Joan Didion: The Last Interview
oh yes i didion’t
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer
a great (as in “very good” not “large”) collection of prose from an acclaimed american poet
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Guyana by Élise Turcotte
a powerful quebecois novel about grief
Apocalypse by DH Lawrence
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
Thrillers #1 (Hilton, Keene, Hillerman, Friedman)
still in a genre rut i can’t escape
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
powerful stuff on racism, colonialism and botched governmental attempts to move on
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
reading the best of books in the worst of times
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
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset (SITA), ed. Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
a boxset of ten powerful chapbooks
Sharks, Death, Surfers by Melissa McCarthy
lovely object with an essay on more than three things
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
Eulogy for Josephine Bunyan
the eulogy I read at my grandmother’s funeral in 2014
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
near death experiences in a bad blog post
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
my thoughts on literature and class
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Eulogy for Philip Hadley
the speech i read at my grandfather’s funeral
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Digression-free review of some new literary fiction
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
Suicide Notes by Lewis Parker
Another book of poetry from up-and-coming indie publisher Morbid Books.
The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe
All Men Must Die, innit?
One of Us by Åsne Seierstad
A beautiful book about a horrible thing.
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
In America alone, 281 pounds of pig shit is produced for every one person per year. I don’t know if that’s a lot as I don’t know what a pound is.
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
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Recovery by John Berryman
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Triumph Of The Now 