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The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the …
This book is so much harder than the other ones. And soo much longer. Also the first half is translated by a different person? I am struggling a bit.
The Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 novel by American author Thomas Pynchon. The …
Last time I read this was at least 15 years ago, its weirder and even more fun than I remembered.
The End, the sixth and final book, reflects back on the personal fallout from the …
LFG
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective …
That's right, finished the book at the gig
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective …
Content warning Plot details but no big spoilers
Was prepared to hate-read this but halfway through I'm surprised at how little I'm cringeing at the plot, which is basically every undercover-cop-infiltrates-anarchists shitshow of the last 25 years mushed together in thinly-veiled-Tarnac... I could imagine many different directions for this book that would fucking enrage me and very few that I would find satisfying, but Kushner is a good and understated writer so I'm curious to see where it goes.
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
Didn't love this but at least it was short. Beautifully written but probably more interesting for someone who isn't totally obsessed with space/the ISS. Kind of expected more, I picked it cause it was shortlisted for Booker. That said it was a pretty relaxing read as someone who like, rewatches Cosmos to stave off panic attacks.
When Wendy is nominated for the coveted National FoodHut Contemporary Art Prize alongside her friend …
WENDY IS PERFECT
The first book in Bernard Cornwell's number one bestselling series The Warrior Chronicles, on the …
Didn't quite fill the Kristin Lavrandsdattir-sized hole in my heart but i binged this audiobook in a day while repainting my room and it was a certain type of fun
This book fucks
Poet Akbar (Calling a Wolf a Wolf) explores the allure of martyrdom in this electrifying …
It was good! There was a plot point early on that kind of fucked with my suspension of disbelief and bugged me like a splinter the whole rest of the read, and some neatness in the plot that I wasn't totally buying/in the mood for. But I'm a sucker for expert prose, subtly handled subject matter, and readability so it won me over.
Read this because I wanted to recommend it to a few people (based on some interviews I heard while she was doing press for the book). A surprisingly enjoyable read, even if I don't align with her politically in a lot of ways and find her a bit insufferable, I do think she lays out a lot of stuff about what's weird about the present moment quite well. Would give to my mom
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman …
Death. Dogs. Dogs and humans. Writing. Writers love to write about writing.
En quelques pages, à la première personne, Annie Ernaux raconte une relation vécue avec un …
First book I've finished in French (I picked the shortest one possible, its like barely a novella lol).
An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.
The small town nuclear family setting made me feel so claustrophobic and a few hundred pages in, right when I was starting to wonder why I was still reading this weird family book, all the characters and the story started blowing open. Really well crafted, nothing revolutionary but a solid book to get wrapped into for a few weeks.
When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops …