Winter Is Here and the Time Is Right For A "Whatchoo Reading?" Thread

I'm a little giddy.

Just got a copy of Oscar Casares's first novel Amigoland. His short story collection, Brownsville, is one of the best collections I've ever read. As Ice Cube would say, today was a good day.

Greene's Collected Essays incl re-evaluating his early discoveries of books, and excavating/salvaging works from deep in British literature (obscure to me anyway)going with passing references to world going down tubes in 30s, so urge to rescue/counterbalance seems subtly evident, but yeah, he doesn't hesitate to go negative, and my copy indicates that Beatrix Potter was not amused by his celebration. Pinefox, have you read yr copy of Clock Without Hands, and if so, what did you think?

I can't remember if it's Collected Essays or Mornings in the Dark that has Greene's great movie review where he basically accused Shirley Temple's movie producers as using her as paedophile-bait, and got sued for it.

I just finished Sam Taylor's 'The Island at the End of the World', and while I can't really recommend it to anyone, I really want someone else to read it so I can have someone to moan to about the massive multiple gaping logic holes in it. Nice cover, though:

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Just read Gabriel Josipovici's essay review on Volume 1 of Beckett's letters. Josipovici can go repetitively fuck heself with a long eclectic thing of doubtful provenance,(nothing to do with the review - just general dislike) but the letters sound great.

In the TLS I meant to say.

Katherine Mansfield: Letters & Journals -- a very interesting selection, but not very helpfully edited (obscure references and persons remain unexplained throughout)

James, thanks for the advice! Lack of movie related writing was my main disappointment wrt this anthology. Did end up enjoying it immensley though, especially the stuff about popes and priests (don't often read actively catholic writers, I guess, was nice to get a small window into that world.)

going with passing references to world going down tubes in 30s

Haha yeah dow, that next to last essay written in 1940 where he talks about how people are saying that man gets used to anything and he's like "well, NO, we just get used to THIS stuff because we knew it was gonna happen anyway, it was inevitable"? Wow. I'd love to know where - if at all - that was actually published, not exactly a call to buy war bonds.

Now reading Yukio Mishima's Temple Of The Golden Pavillion

Perhaps the time has come to make the seasonal change of digs for this thread. You know, spring cleaning and all that jazz. Since I screwed up the thread title last time with a fistful of those &apos doohickeys, maybe someone else might care to do the honors this time. Øystein? Jaq? Scott?

Done: Spring in the NORTH, Autumn in the SOUTH, it matters not, what are you READING?