Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Tag: sex
The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy
an excellent – near flawless – novel
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
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
on sleaze via Saul Bellow
sleaze is not a synonym for prurience
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
Winter in July by Doris Lessing
short stories about non-monogamous colonial types
Out of Time by James P Hogan
descends into a rant about frottage
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
Surrender by Joanna Pocock
big post on privilege, re-wilding, ageing; a phenomenal read
Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Role of Honor [sic] by John Gardner
a comfort: Gardner’s ignorance of affluence shows he never got rich from these terrible books
This Is Where I Get Off by KIRBY
great poetry, i whinge about lockdown innit
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
The Triple Echo by H. E. Bates
a surprisingly great short novel that might be hateful
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
great book of pomes
Story of O by Pauline Réage
a real dirty french novel
People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck
an essential contemporary memoir
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
some naughty naughty monks
Cruising by Alex Espinoza
Are you done with the sofa, floor, kitchen table, baby?
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
Happening by Annie Ernaux
feeling sad so read a sad book on abortion
Triumph Of The Now 