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Books I’ve read in 2024, part III
This post will take me up to where I’m currently at with my reading, in October. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner “We were doing what European activists spend hours and hours doing: simply talking.”...
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Books I’ve read this year so far, part II
Short War by Lily Meyer Lily Meyer is a UEA graduate and a talented translator; this is her first novel. I really enjoyed this, especially the Philip Roth-esque elements of horny teenage boys growing...
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Books I’ve read this year so far, part 1
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff I thought this was good! I thought the ending (very Last Temptation of Christ-esque) was particularly well done. Groff can really write – she is basically a full-time...
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Riddley Walker
“The worl is ful of things waiting to happen. Thats the meat and boan of it right there. You myt think you can jus go here and there doing nothing. Happening nothing. You cant tho you bleeding cant....
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Some great recent reads
Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution (Peter Andreas) Jesus, this book was insane! It reminded me a lot of Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Retrospective, in terms of its focus on a family member...
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Colombia-ing around
It has been wonderful getting to spend some time with my family (including brand new nephew!!) in Colombia. I haven’t had much time to read – I reread Bringing Up the Bodies, and read an ARC of the...
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The Inheritors
I’m spotting robins, hearing blackbirds, my dad is recording what sounds like hundreds of songs singing in the pond back at the Oregon house… spring has officially sprung! The clocks have changed, the...
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The Golden Notebook
Wow, this book… I don’t even know where to begin. I can’t believe this book would have been published during Season 2 of Mad Men. This book just blew my mind open, like a nuclear bomb. When was the...
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Reading Catch-Up
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century (Olga Ravn) “There’s humans, and then there’s humanoids. Those who were born and those who were made. Those who are going to die and those who...
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Educated
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.” I read Educated on one of my many train rides last week. It was such a compulsive read, I...
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War Books
Drone Theory (Grégoire Chamayou) “The partisans of the drone as a privileged weapon of antiterrorism promises a war without losses or defeats. What they fail to mention is that it will also be a war...
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Three Contemporary Novels
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara “America is not for everyone—it is not for us.” This is a very thought-provocative and interesting book. I don’t know if I will ever reread it again. I felt the same...
View Article“Emma” and Books of 2021
My exposure to 19th-century novels is not what it could be. In college I focused mainly on contemporary literature courses, and pretty much all of the texts I use for teaching are 20th/21st century....
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Hurricane Season
From a journal entry written in 2010, when I was working in Mexico: This week I’ve been visiting the branch offices in ____ and ____, two other majorly run-down (to use an understatement) cities on...
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July Books
In New York I read The Makioka Sisters on L’s couch; I meet my new U.S. editor; I walk something like 10-20 miles a day; I go to a Korean spa, a stand-up comedy routine, a ‘Ninja Sushi’ restaurant in...
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May/June Books
Like a lonesome cowboy and a wanderin’ hobo, I will soon be taking my leave of this humble island – for a month, that is. I survived Game of Thrones, I survived the semester, I survived many big...
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April Books
The above image basically represents April and the first half of May for me. Oh man, this show is breaking my fucking heart! As my sister said, “I think I need to find a happier hobby/interest at the...
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March Books
*The Mars Room (Rachel Kushner) “I can only know myself, if I can know anyone. I can only judge me.” (pg. 272) My two favourite books this month had the word “room” in the title – how ’bout that! I...
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Notable Books of 2018
Here are some notable books I read in 2018 that I didn’t write about on this blog (not ordered in any way). A Separation (Katie Kitamura) Wow, how could I not have read this book earlier? This is one...
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Clock Dance & Winter
My annual seasonal depression is slowly but surely kicking in – why do I feel so tired all the time, I text my sister, and she responds, Because winter is coming. Oh, the equatorial child in me can...
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