The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
Tag: war
On The Beach by Nevil Shute
repression at the end of the world
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
war, hmmm, what *is* it good for?
The Last Days of Mankind
taxidermied rats telling a tale as old as time (100 years of time)
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
WAR #1: Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
Four Repeater Books (two I recommend)
two excellent books, two not excellent books
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
fell orf my bike boohoo
Famous Trials 9: Roger Casement by H. Montgomery Hyde
some strange, unpalatable, vintage true crime
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
Seven Terrors by Selvedin Avdić
phenomenal pop-post-modernist novel straight outta bosnia
The Automaton by David Wheldon
i remember that i don’t like reading about magic
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
The Road To Tahrir Square by Lloyd C. Gardner
US so vain, I bet you think Arab Spring is about you
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow
The Cold War is a period loved by fiction. The world at that time was cast into blurry, grey-stained, blackContinue Reading
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Iran. Who knows much about it? We’ve all seen Argo, we’ve all heard of nuclear weapons, we’re all aware thatContinue Reading
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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Big books. I have an odd relationship with ’em. The idea of big books, to be honest, I have aContinue Reading
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Last night, as I wandered between bars and cafes in Taksim, North of the Golden Horn, I read most ofContinue Reading
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
I’m going on a trip to Russia in about six weeks, so have begun my travel research. Unlike normal people,Continue Reading
The Great War by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco’s wordless, 8 metre long panorama of the first day of the Battle of the Somme is a harrowingContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 