Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding
"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Fourth Estate, …
Ghassan Kanafani: Men in the sun, and other Palestinian stories (1978, Heinemann Educational (etc.))
Il maturo Abu Qais, il giovane Asad e il ragazzo Marwàn, fuggiaschi dai campi profughi palestinesi, attraversano l'inferno del deserto …
DNF - page 304. Might come back to this one. Might not.
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than …
Favourite Morrison so far. A tight novella jam packed with ideas, which I am excited to return to on an eventual second read.
"'In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go …
William T. Vollmann: Fathers and crows (1993, Penguin Books)
"'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, …
Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (Signet Classics)
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the …
