Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
middling swashbuckling adventure
middling swashbuckling adventure
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
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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
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Ali Smith’s latest novel – How to be both – has been shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker PrizeContinue Reading
For the past year, I have been working on a historical novel set in “Biblical times”, and during that timeContinue Reading
I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks and will continue to be horrendously so for the next few. I’ve beenContinue Reading
Today I read Colm Tóibín’s 2013 novella, The Testament of Mary. It’s very short, 104 pages in this edition, with pretty bigContinue Reading
I was worried that Hilary Mantel’s 2012 Booker-winner Bring Up The Bodies would take me weeks to read. But there wasContinue Reading