Golden Apple of the Sun by Teju Cole
strongest lockdown lit i’ve (yet) to encounter
Tag: lockdown
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
i move thru 2021 like a dying ghost
Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
a fun book but not a real one, y’know
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
i eavesdrop on some people planning a big party night then go home and read nerdy fiction; bored
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
Movements in European History by DH Lawrence
a mediocre history text then a pro-UBI, anti-“the Arts is special” rant
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
very little on the book, lots of rage at the slow quietening of June’s global protest movement
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
hide the dfw; notes on craft & posthumous novels
This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
great poetry, i whinge about lockdown innit
The break-up of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe by Ghita Ionescu
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
the building i live in got on fire in lockdown
the governesses by anne serre
parkdale in the pandemic
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
distracting the self with heady genre fiction
The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates
a surprisingly great short novel that might be hateful
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
i read escapist fiction and attempt escapist walking
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
great prose-verse novel about nunavut in the 70s
Triumph Of The Now 