God Help The Child by Toni Morrison
sadness, cruelty, oppression, magical realism, and a writer in their mid-80s putting out possibly the best depiction of the millennial experience to date
Tag: Nobel laureate
Five by Doris Lessing
five early novellas (in one book) from Nobel winner Doris Lessing
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
if the English state could clone the poor to harvest their organs, it would
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
it’s absolutely fine and that’s why it’s not
Journey to the East by Herman Hesse
on travel when depressed: it’s a balm, a binge, a fling, that feels good but fixes nothing
Drive Your Plough Over The Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
refreshing, uplifting and far from cloying depiction of someone living an ideal life
Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
speculative short essay that proposes the historic existence of shame-free desire
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
A Ripple From The Storm AND Landlocked by Doris Lessing (Children of violence #3 AND #4)
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, And Five (As Narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) by Doris Lessing
part two of doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
The Proust Screenplay by Harold Pinter
to adapt is not to survive
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
The Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andrić
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer
My pile of books, towering as it often is in January, needs to be got through. So in order toContinue Reading
The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
I may have mentioned this in a blog post before, but my mother has the morbid (though appreciated) habit of,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 