The Counsellor by Cormac McCarthy
a bad book that, ethically, i probably shouldn’t have been reading
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the mirror and the light by hilary mantel
Written June 15th and actually it was this one, not Things Fall Apart that caused me to pause blogging, forContinue Reading
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
i can’t believe it’s so racist
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham
Very Colonial travel writing from author of The Painted Veil
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann is not a widely-read novelist any more, though in the middle of the 20th-century, she was both popularContinue Reading
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
This is a book I’ve read a lot about. It is referred to repeatedly in both Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: AContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 