semi-autobiographical
- Dec 31, 2013
A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
- Dec 31, 2013
The Bell Jar
- Dec 31, 2013
Three Cups Of Tea
- Aug 28, 2015
Norwegian Wood
- Nov 3, 2020
The House Of God
- May 27, 2023
House Of SpiritsThe thing is, Gabriel García Márquez is tough competition. This is One Hundred Years of Solitude with worse writing and better politics, I am not likely the first to say, but the writing is in fact still brilliant. The story is spectacular, intergenerational family epics are maybe my favorite genre? and in the end I cannot hold the mimicry against Allende. A wonderful book
- Jul 19, 2023
Frank SonnetsPoetry: hard to judge? I don't know how intrinsic that is, or how ignorant I am. I read through this because someone I know said it was important to them, and I wanted to see why. I think I can tell, think I can see the way the beauty represents itself and her and builds her in fragments throughout the sonnets, I can hear the (a) story she is telling and feel the things that I think she wants me to feel. But it is hard to tell, I think I need to read more bad poetry first.
- Oct 31, 2024
The Golden NotebookI found this book to be rich, emotionally honest, and a timely discussion of handling politics and interpersonal interactions when it feels like things are out of control, inaccessible. I think there is a through-line here, a bit sketchy, from George Elliot to Dorris Lessig to Sallye Rooney, although I would not be surprised if I was the first to try and claim that. Maybe that through-line is just Women of the British Isles. But I think there is something in here about looking at the world and presenting a story that is at once intensely personal and revealing about societal structure, politics told from the first person perspective.