The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
i continue having a terrible time
Tag: Mental illness
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)
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist by Adrian Tomine
a bland book for my bland life
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
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
scott visits canada’s “museum of immigration” and gets reflective. Dune Messiah is barely mentioned.
Fathoms: The Whale in the World by Rebecca Giggs
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Frederik Pohl
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART THREE)
i cannot read myself happy
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
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
Not Really A Review of Not Really A Year
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
Notes on Four Books I Read Months Ago
notes on four books i read earlier in the year
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
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Who the f*ck is Malcolm Gladwell?
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
essentially a review of my new meds
Decreation by Anne Carson
was almost sectioned today; read a book that was difficult but perfect
Love, Pan-Fried by Gray Crosbie
great queer flash fiction from scotland
Hello I want to die please fix me by Anna Mehler Paperny
writing about depression
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi
it’s good though it’s very optimistic
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS
Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher
some over-hyped Gen Xey essays
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
getting sad again in the bleak northern winter
My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley
an important, wonderful, book
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
in the relentless cold I seek escape
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
Every Fox Is A Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
death, dying, dead
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
Sad Farsi Love Poem by Abi Andrews
an effective exploration of white saviour complex
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
On Urinals
How many men must a man urinate in front of before you can call him a man?
Ice by Anna Kavan
x, x, baby / you’re cold as x / didn’t have x cube so you bought vanilla x
Swinging the Maelstrom: A Critical Edition by Malcolm Lowry
Lunar Caustic is a lie.
Hillary Clinton Haiku by Vera G. Shaw
This isn’t a real review of a real book, IT’S SCOTT ON SOCIAL ANXIETY!!!
Triumph Of The Now 