We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
hope is a discipline, and I am undisciplined
Tag: depression
Variations on the Body by María Ospina
a supposedly transgressive thing i’ll probably do again
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Trauma??? of intent??? or something like that by Anthony Burgess 
not a witty pastiche so much as a dull echo
A Dog’s Ransom by Patricia Highsmith
six weeks late, it’s the TotN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021!
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART ONE)
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
The Complete Orsinia by Ursula K Le Guin
no future until vaccination / please i need future
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler
an excellent short genre piece
the heads of cerberus by Francis Stevens
early sci-fi and smh so sad
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
South and West by Joan Didion
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
a blog from when the [first?] lockdown eased
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Who the f*ck is Malcolm Gladwell?
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Maybe I’ve grown out of peripatetic flaneur type novels?
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
i’m distracted
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill
a great novel but mainly me whinging about winter
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
great book of pomes
of is by Aisha Sasha John
i read some local poetry
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
Love, Pan-Fried by Gray Crosbie
great queer flash fiction from scotland
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
reading about dragons again lol
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
the emotional cost of working in high end catering
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Triumph Of The Now 