I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux (The Nobel Lecture)
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
a tiny book containing Ernaux’s Nobel address and some bumpf
it’s absolutely fine and that’s why it’s not
on travel when depressed: it’s a balm, a binge, a fling, that feels good but fixes nothing
refreshing, uplifting and far from cloying depiction of someone living an ideal life
a 1980s historical novel….. FROM EGYPT!?!?!?!?
another doris lessing quintet concludes
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
part two of doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
part one of lessing’s sci-fi quintet
notes on four books i read earlier in the year
to adapt is not to survive
powerful, tho rushed, 1930s novel about fascism in the USA
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
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some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
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