Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
there were emperors; i am emperbored
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
a mediocre short novel
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
redressing a gap in my reading
still working too much; brief notes on celibacy as sexual practice
the first part of a lauded comic about the weimar republic
an early novel from a writer who’d get more exciting with age
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
some proper bloody man’s fiction: great, if that’s your thingaling
impressive, emotive, historical
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
high grade historical fiction and the blogger hits some snags
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Once upon a time, I was trying to be a writer…
The first Cormac McCarthy novel I read was 2006’s The Road, and it is by far and away his best.Continue Reading
I often state that me taking more than a week to read anything, irrelevant of size, is a sign thatContinue Reading
I like Biblical novels. So much so that I wrote one*, and so much so that after reading about ten/twenty,Continue Reading
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth was a surprising literary hit of 2014. Not a “literary hit” in that it soldContinue Reading
I thoroughly enjoyed The Paying Guests, which was a relief as the last book I read was DIRE. I’d neverContinue Reading
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin’s Betrayal of Russia is a very strange book. I read itContinue Reading
Ali Smith’s latest novel – How to be both – has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker PrizeContinue Reading