I just finished Blindness by Saramago (wrote about it on my stack) and it kind of whipped me around. Also London Falling, excellent true crime, and currently in The Merge by Grace Walker, an ingenious dystopia where people without money in the UK are basically bullied into "merging," i.e., two consciousnesses in one healthy body. Prepping for a trip to the Balitics, I have Tove Jansson's The Summer Book and Arto Paasilinna's The Year of the Hare on the nightstand. Thanks for your post, Alexis!!
Have you read any other Kafka? Some of his other works are good too.
For some reason, pure curiosity I guess, I read Yesteryear and didn't like it at all. I am almost certainly not the target audience but I can barely see what the fuss was. I'll watch the film, out of curiosity (ha!).
I read The Sellout by Paul Beatty last month and loved it, it's easily now one of my top 5 favourite books. So funny, I was laughing hysterically throughout.
I'm halfway through The Bee Sting, which seems to be universally adored, but I've put it aside to take a break. I can't say I'm enjoying it much, but I've been told it all comes together and makes sense at the end, so I'll return to it at some point.
I took that break also so I could read a Woman in Translation, it's the month and all - Transit, Anna Seghers. I'm nearing the end and it's terrific, and it has to be feature one of the most unreliable narrators I've ever come across (which adds to the intrigue).
I just finished Blindness by Saramago (wrote about it on my stack) and it kind of whipped me around. Also London Falling, excellent true crime, and currently in The Merge by Grace Walker, an ingenious dystopia where people without money in the UK are basically bullied into "merging," i.e., two consciousnesses in one healthy body. Prepping for a trip to the Balitics, I have Tove Jansson's The Summer Book and Arto Paasilinna's The Year of the Hare on the nightstand. Thanks for your post, Alexis!!
Have you read any other Kafka? Some of his other works are good too.
For some reason, pure curiosity I guess, I read Yesteryear and didn't like it at all. I am almost certainly not the target audience but I can barely see what the fuss was. I'll watch the film, out of curiosity (ha!).
I read The Sellout by Paul Beatty last month and loved it, it's easily now one of my top 5 favourite books. So funny, I was laughing hysterically throughout.
I'm halfway through The Bee Sting, which seems to be universally adored, but I've put it aside to take a break. I can't say I'm enjoying it much, but I've been told it all comes together and makes sense at the end, so I'll return to it at some point.
I took that break also so I could read a Woman in Translation, it's the month and all - Transit, Anna Seghers. I'm nearing the end and it's terrific, and it has to be feature one of the most unreliable narrators I've ever come across (which adds to the intrigue).