OUT by Christine Brooke-Rose
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
christmas brooke-rose quadrilogy day 1/4
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
a pre-release post on a novella about Russian conscripts
1965 experimental novel about the after-effects of mass war
double-teaming more excellent doris lessing
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
repression at the end of the world
war, hmmm, what *is* it good for?
taxidermied rats telling a tale as old as time (100 years of time)
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
two excellent books, two not excellent books
fell orf my bike boohoo
some strange, unpalatable, vintage true crime
a very very very good big book on WAR
a touch of proust
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
phenomenal pop-post-modernist novel straight outta bosnia
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
US so vain, I bet you think Arab Spring is about you
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
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