To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
i suppose this book is excellent?
terrified i may look like i dont know how to drive
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
that wasn’t very good for me
breathtaking book on death
an excellent book
redacted text from septy ’17
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
powerful, direct, dignified poems
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
i continue having a terrible time
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
middling swashbuckling adventure
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
six weeks late, it’s the TotN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021!
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
no future until vaccination / please i need future
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
an excellent short genre piece
early sci-fi and smh so sad
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
Who the f*ck is Malcolm Gladwell?
Maybe I’ve grown out of peripatetic flaneur type novels?
i’m distracted
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
a great novel but mainly me whinging about winter
great book of pomes
i read some local poetry
excellent mid-life crisis novel
great queer flash fiction from scotland