The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk PART ONE
my thoughts on the first half of an incredible, beautiful, perfect book that was too physically heavy to take on an international flight
Tag: Nobel Prize for literature
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck
it’s absolutely fine and that’s why it’s not
A Ripple From The Storm AND Landlocked by Doris Lessing (Children of violence #3 AND #4)
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
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
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 