Most recently finished first:
Raymond Carver - CathedralJoshua Cohen - The NetanyahusJonathan Franzen - CrossroadsAnnie Ernaux - A Girl’s StoryMiles Franklin - My Brilliant CareerMichel Houellebecq - LanzaroteEvelyn Waugh - ScoopPeter Biskind - My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson WellesKarl Ove Knausgård - The Morning StarEula Biss - On ImmunityCharles Dickens - David CopperfieldMichel Houellebecq - PlatformEvelyn Waugh - Decline and FallKurt Vonnegut - Armageddon In RetrospectRaymond Carver - FiresJulian Barnes - MetrolandKazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of HillsKarl Ove Knausgård - SpringBri Lee - Who Gets To Be SmartJohn Bell - Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on Leadership and Character from ShakespeareMeghan Daum - The Unspeakable, and Other Subjects of DiscussionLoudon Wainwright III - Liner NotesRoisin Kiberd - The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the InternetRachel Cusk - Second PlaceTina Fey - BossypantsThomas Mann - The Magic MountainPamela Paul - My Life with BobLeo Tolstoy - Anna KareninaKarl Ove Knausgård - In the Land of the CyclopsMichel Houellebecq - The Map and The TerritoryKazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the SunPatricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About ThisGeorge Saunders - A Swim in a Pond in the RainNikolai Gogol - Dead Souls: Part OneSteven Hyden - This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A...John Steinbeck - East of EdenL.P. Hartley - The Go-BetweenKarl Ove Knausgård, Fredrik Ekelund - Home and AwayJenny Erpenbeck - Not A Novel: Collected Writings and ReflectionsAnne Helen Petersen - Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout GenerationLauren Oyler - Fake AccountsMartin Amis - Inside Story: A NovelTobias Wolff - This Boy's LifeHari Kunzru - Red PillBill Bryson - The BodyKerry Egan - On LivingCharles Dickens - Great Expectations
Started and didn’t finish:
Michael Mohammed Ahmad - The Other Half of YouLydia Davis - Can’t and Won’tHunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las VegasKarl Ove Knausgård - So Much Longing In So Little SpaceMarilynne Robinson - What Are We Doing Here? EssaysGustave Flaubert - Sentimental EducationThomas Pynchon - Mason & DixonWoody Allen - Apropos of Nothing
The most enjoyable experiences I had this year were in finally getting around to some classics: The Magic Mountain, Anna Karenina, East of Eden, and the Dickens and Waugh novels. Most of the 2021 releases I was looking forward to didn’t disappoint: Franzen, Knausgaard, Cusk, Cohen and Ishiguro were all satisfying. Lockwood’s novel was solid, but maybe not quite as good as I was expecting due to the high expectations I had from Priestdaddy and her essays. Oyler’s novel was a little disappointing, but I found enough in there to get me through to the end.
There were many other books I abandoned in addition to the list I’ve got here, but those are the ones I got a decent way into before giving up on for various reasons, sometimes because the book got boring, but mostly because of my waning attention span when work or life got particularly stressful.
― triggercut, Sunday, 26 December 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
so, David Copperfield or Great Expectations?
― koogs, Sunday, 26 December 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
The first one.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Pigbag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 December 2021 12:47 (two years ago) link
Not sure if this si complete.& may have a couple added by the end of this week
Books wot I have done read this year
Angela Saini InferiorIbram X kendi How To Be Anti-Racist Mari Sandoz Crazy Horse:The Strange Man of the Oglalas Cheyenne AutumnRoxanne Dunbar Ortiz An Indigenous People’s History of the United StatesCharles C mann 1491Paul Ortiiz An African American and LatinX History of the United StatesPragya Arghawal SwayAlexander Mitchell New Jim CrowPaolo Friere A Pedagogy Of HopeSteven H Gardner Another Tuneless Racket vol 1Raymond Queneau We Always Treat Women Too Well OdileSarah Ahmed Living A Feminist Lifebell hooks Ain’t I A WomanArthur Miller Echoes Down The CorridorWalter benjamin IlluminationsMerle haggard My House of Memories Patrisse Khan-Cullors When They Call You A TerroristNic Cheeseman How To Rig an ElectionKehinde Andrews New Age Of EmpireAlexandra Wilson In Black & White Reni Eddo-Lodge Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About RaceRobin DiAngelo White FragilityDavid Olusoga The World’s WarMark Mordue Boy On FireClinton Walker StrandedOctavia Butler DawnDeborah Frances White The Guilty FeministRichard Thompson BeeswingJames Fearnley Here Comes EverybodyDaniel Goldmark The Cartoon Music BookLarry Kirwan Rocking The BronxCraig Werner A Change Is Going To ComeDavid Kerr African Popular TheatreAudre Lorde The Cancer JournalsTa Nehisi Coates Between The Buried and MeBob Gluck You’ll Know When You Get ThereKwame Anthony Appiah The Lies That BindKen Kesey The Last Go RoundWilliam Goldman Adventures In the Skin TradeMatt Ruff Lovecraft CountryMary Robinson Climate Justice.
currently reading Ibram X kendi Stamped from the Beginning which I will probably finish in a few days.& Caste by Isabel Wilkerson which I will probably take longer to get throughAudre Lorde Compendium which I may get through too. collection of 3 of her books so may have Sister Outsider done at leastCruel Britannia by Ian Cobain again not sure will be done by New Year.& possibly about 100 others that I've started but need to find the right time for.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 December 2021 12:53 (two years ago) link
Also a long way into the Jane Jacobs book The Death and Life of Great American Citiesset up a number of orders from interlibrary loans several of which will hopefully come through on the 4th of January.One already in the local library which is closed apart from a couple of days this week and came in a day after I was last in townAnita Loos Gentlemen prefer Blondes /But Marry brunettes which i think is 2 different volumes of diary like entries by Lorelei .Saw the film yesterday. Not sure if I was thinking it would inevitably be on over Xmas.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 26 December 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
xpost, re: Dickens.
Loved both, but reading David Copperfield was the more enjoyable experience. The characters are better drawn and have more distinct voices. But mostly, it’s just funnier. Every section featuring Micawber is a riot.
― triggercut, Sunday, 26 December 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
pah!
― koogs, Sunday, 26 December 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
This is a 1/3 of what I normally read in a year, but in some ways I made up that time to read some bulky books by Pontoppidan, Drnic, Sterne, Levrero and Eliot for the first time. Chaibi and Jaeggy also v good and it was finally great to get round to The Makioka Sisters, after reading everything else by Tanizaki. Poetry-wise I discovered Tamil poetry via Nammalvar.
Henrik Pontoppidan - Lucky PerJoao Cabral de Melo Neto - Education by StoneGiuseppe Ungaretti - AllegriaJuan Carlos Onetti - Complete Short StoriesEuripides - Grief Lessons: Four Plays (tr. Carson)Laurence Sterne - Tristam ShandyDasa Drnic - EEGGuillevic - SelectedBeowulf (tr.Heaney)Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet days of DisciplineOsamu Dazai - No Longer HumanJunichiro Tanizaki - The Makioka SistersDriss Chaibi - The Simple PastJ. Rodolfo Wilcock - The Temple of IconoclastsGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchNatalia Ginzburg - Family and BorghesiaSophie Collins - Who is Mary Sue?Baudelaire - Intimate JournalsMario Levrero - The Luminous NovelNammalvar - Endless SongJohann Grimmelhausen - Simplicissimus
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 December 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
not the dudebro beowulf? how behind the times
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 27 December 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
What's that lol?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 27 December 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
the headley translation, new this year. i think it's very silly.
https://i.imgur.com/Jc7ywEX.png
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 27 December 2021 01:29 (two years ago) link
yeesh, that first line is painful to read.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 27 December 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
WHY???
https://i.imgur.com/nLGQgoN.png
― jmm, Monday, 27 December 2021 02:34 (two years ago) link
It’s no Skinhead Hamlet, that’s for sure.
― Heatmiserlou (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 27 December 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
joyce carol oates - carthagejoyce carol oates - breathejoyce carol oates - beastsjoyce carol oates (as rosamund smith) - the barrensupdike - memories of the ford administrationeugene oneill - 6 short playseugene oneill - beyond the horizonmolly brodak - banditblake bailey - roth biopatricia lockwood - no one is talking abt thismichael lewis - the 5th riskrene stauffer - the roger federer storyjohn o'hara - the ewingsjohn o'hara - hope of heavenmurial spark - realities and dreamsdavid roberts - jean stafford biothomas mann - death in venicefrank macshane - john o'hara bioanna wiener - uncanny valleyblake gopnik - warhol bio
abandoned:james cain - career in c majorhenry miller - tropic of cancerarthur phillips - the king at the edge of the worldknut hamsen - hungerjackie ess - darryl
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 December 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Notable Fails/Rejections:
Lincoln in the Bardo, Geo. Saunders
Aimless did you ditch this bc you didnt like it or for external reasons? I was kind of surprised at how much it didnt work for me, considering that i generally was/am a fan. maybe i just grew out of his whole thing.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 27 December 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
add me to this list of ppl who generally like(d) saunders work but tried and did not finish lincoln in the bardo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 December 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Aimless did you ditch this bc you didnt like it or for external reasons?
My reasons noted here: Winter 2021: ...and you're reading WHAT?!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 27 December 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
abandoned:jackie ess - darryl
noooo i loved this one
― flopson, Monday, 27 December 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
also the saunders book has a main character called HANS VOLLMAN which is too far for me and i liked the name kyle boot
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
saunders’ story collections before tenth of december still slap, i just think the overwhelming sentimentality of his recent work kinda neutralizes the whole effect. i didn’t finish bardo either
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
if you reread “adams” i’m sure you’ll find it’s still dope
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
yeah im sure youre right. after all the hype bardo got when it came out i felt like the only person in the world who wasnt charmed by it, this is validating. it was just disappointing bc it felt like such a classic case of a short story person extending their very familiar & well-honed bag of short story tricks to novel length and it not working due to the obvious reason that novels are more than just long short stories, and i assumed saunders was be smart enough not to fall into that trap but i guess not.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
"was be smart enough" = "would be" ffs, lol
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 27 December 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
xpost Yeah, I vaguely recall a review of Bobbie Ann Mason's debut (maybe only) novel, starting with a sympathetic comment about Creative Writing writers being under the same pressure as anybody coming up through what's left of the popular press: that book publishers (and literary agents) really really really want you to emit a novel, otherwise you're considered prestige loss leader at best, unless you stick to/are stuck to the smalltime publishers, and even they would like a novel, probably. Reviewer went to describe the stretch from her short stories to the novel...And she seemed to pretty much fade away after that, not that I keep up all that well, but used to come across new stories pretty easily. George Saunders - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain How is this?? Seems like it might be good, since he's a teacher, hopefully using some of this (about Russian novels) in his classes.
― dow, Monday, 27 December 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
I have a colleague who is using that Saunders book (About the Russians) to teach some shorter Russian novels to high schoolers this spring. Sounds like it will be perfect for that purpose!
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 27 December 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
I'm also interested in why/how someone could drop Darryl, but I'm severely biased because Jackie is a pal
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 27 December 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
I found swim in the pond in the rain a bit of a joyless slog for me read back to back but it did seem like a great teaching tool if you’re dipping in and out.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 27 December 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
re: Bobbie Ann Mason, I thought In Country was pretty good! Not perfect, and with some cheesy YA novel moments, but I liked it. They made an ok movie out of it too iirc (or maybe I just liked it because it had Bruce Willis in a major role and a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack, and I can't say no to a movie with double Bruce.)
― Lily Dale, Monday, 27 December 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
Thanks, Lily Dale, will check library for that (book, since my DVD drive has given out)---the review was not totally neg, but made me a bit sad, like here was a fairly accomplished short story writer starting over, and being obliged to, in reviewer's take---so I just wandered on, as might well have anyway.Xpost Yeah, could see Saunders' book as useful in between reading/re-reading of the novels themselves, and I think he includes excerpts, extensive quotes---?
― dow, Monday, 27 December 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
(Grace Paley and Alice Munro seem like leading examples of good short story writers who made it through whole careers w 0 novels---Paley said she started one, threw it away, dunno about Munro, but wouldn't be surprised if she didn't even bother to start one, knowing she was on an extended roll w the stories.)
― dow, Monday, 27 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
re: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
I enjoyed it. Mostly for the excellent short stories themselves (which are included in full), all of which I’d not yet read, except for one of the Chekhov ones. After (or during) each one, Saunders analyses why the stories work, or where they fall short. There’s plenty of helpful advice for fiction writers, but I think it’s also a helpful tool for criticism and getting better at articulating your own response to a work. I’ve often struggled to put why I do or don’t like something into words, but there’s some great examples here on how to best approach that process.
― triggercut, Monday, 27 December 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
Sounds good, thanks!
― dow, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 05:52 (two years ago) link
think this is about itnick pinkerton - goodbye, dragon innrobert walser - walser on paintingsebald - a place in the countrygaskell - north and southhebel - the treasure chest of rhinish talesle carre - the honourable schoolboyle carre - smiley's peoplekatherine angel - tomorrow sex will be good againjean rhys - wide sargasso seabalzac - a gondreville mysterybalzac - pere goriotbalzac - vicar of tours (and other stories)walser - the tannerswalser - the assistantsontag - illness as a metaphorstendhal - the scarlet and the blackseelig - walks with walsertolstoy - resurrectiongottfried keller - a village romeo and julietgottfried keller - green henrygottfried keller - three tales of seldywaamia srinisvan - the right to sexpatricia lockwood - no one is talking about thisnan shepherd - the living mountainanne carson - autobiography of redpavese - the moon and the bonfireeuripidies/anne carson - grief lessonshardy - the woodlandershardy - jude the obscureraymond williams - english novel from dickens to lawrencehardy - tess of the d'urbervilles
― devvvine, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 09:38 (two years ago) link
did finish Stamped From The Very beginning by Ibram X kendi & read about 3/4s of I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin which is pretty short and mainly poetry so will probably be revisited.Must get into some more of his work.
Haven't listed any of teh titles i got heaviljy into that I didn't finish cos they got lost into the pile and stuff.includingTa Nahesi Coates We Were Eight Years In Power Richard Wiseman ParanormalityIan Cobain Cruel Britannia
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 09:59 (two years ago) link
Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan - Emmanuel HocquardLes Chants de Maldoror - Comte de LautréamontMezza Voce - Anne-Marie AlbiachThe Hélène Cixous ReaderDubliners - James Joyce
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
Also a lot of Francis Ponge and Emmanuel Levinas
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
are Jude and Tess the two most miserable Hardys? is there anything else as good? I've read a bunch now, still have a bunch to go, and whilst I've enjoyed them, they've been pretty light.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:05 (two years ago) link
Far from the Madding Crowd is maybe more miserable and my favorite
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:08 (two years ago) link
xpthese have been my first endeavour into hardy country so not qualified to say! woodlanders is certainly not without its sadness, but def not the inexorable sinking of jude or the earthly rupture of tess. where it really shines is in the elegiac colouring of the intertwined social (in a romantic and marxist sense) and ecological relationships.
― devvvine, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 12:18 (two years ago) link
yeah, have read both of those, did Madding for o-level, got a d 8(, and read it again a couple of years ago. he does suffer from cliffhangers in some of the serialised stuff, but i enjoyed the one i read this year, Under the Greenwood Tree, just as a plain romance really.
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
Plenty of misery in Return of the Native, if memory serves
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 28 December 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
i dont have a great answer for why i tapped out of darryl, i liked the voice but idk i think i got kinda bored w it
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Far From the Madding Crowd is prob my favorite but I liked The Mayor of Casterbridge a lot as well.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
xposts: i've had denise levertov's translations of guillevic sitting waiting to be read for so long now
a slight addition after getting through the dickens faster than i thought i would:
charles brockden brown - memoirs of carwin, the biloquist & wieland; or, the transformation: an american tale
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
Under the Volcano - Malcolm LowryThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington - Leonora CarringtonSpace Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece - Michael BensonAstral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 - Ryan H. WalshCrying in H Mart - Michelle ZaunerAnna Karenina - Leo TolstoyThe Time Machine Did It - John SwartzwelderThe Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) - James CrumleyBeautiful World, Where Are You - Sally RooneyThe Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World - Vincent BevinsA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance - Hanif AbdurraqibThe Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco - Julie SalamonThe Hearing Trumpet - Leonora CarringtonVineland - Thomas PynchonIt Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories! - Tom ScharplingThe Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 - Rachel KushnerBattle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPhersonThe Exploding Detective - John SwartzwelderThe Collected Stories of Amy Hempel - Amy HempelTwo Serious Ladies - Jane BowlesInvisible Man - Ralph EllisonThe Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking - Brendan I. KoernerIn Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants - Matt CandeiasOpening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American 1970s - Charles TaylorMiddlemarch - George EliotThe Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Svetlana AlexievichNo One Is Talking About This - Patricia LockwoodSpace is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra - John SzwedThe Black Mass of Brother Springer - Charles WillefordReaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein
Pretty good year of crossing off things I've been meaning to read for a long time; I'd had a copy of Under the Volcano waiting for over 20 years. Audiobooks have helped a lot in this regard.
― Chris L, Thursday, 30 December 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
ha wow, like a dozen of those have been sitting on my to-read list for a long time, incl Under the Volcano. I've always been intrigued by the idea of those Swartzwelder books, are they funny?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 30 December 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
They are funny on pretty much every page; he basically repurposed Homer as a detective.
― Chris L, Thursday, 30 December 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
I think I’m done.
In order of completion. Rereads = *
Ursula K. Le Guin - TehanuRichard Stark - The Handle*Richard Stark - The Damsel*P. G. Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters*Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New SunDonald E. Westlake - Help I Am Being Held PrisonerStephen R. Donaldson - The Wounded LandRobin Hobb - Assassin’s ApprenticeUrsula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness Djuna Barnes - NightwoodUrsula K. Le Guin - The DispossessedRobin Hobb - Royal AssassinAnne McCaffrey - DragonflightMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Autumn Twilight*Peter S. Beagle - The Last UnicornMargaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - Dragons of Winter Night*Stephen R. Donaldson - The One TreeWalter M. Miller, Jr. - A Canticle for LeibowitzMarcel Proust - Un amour de Swann/Noms de pays : le nom*Germaine Brée (tr. C. J. Richards, A. D. Truitt) - Marcel Proust and Deliverance from Time*William C. Carter - Marcel Proust: A LifeRobin Hobb - Assassin's QuestStephen R. Donaldson - White Gold WielderPatricia A. McKillip - The Riddle-Master of HedRoger Zelazny - Nine Princes in AmberPatricia A. McKillip - Heir of Sea and FirePatricia A. McKillip - Harpist in the WindRoger Zelazny - The Guns of AvalonJohn le Carré - Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyRobert Jordan - The Eye of the World*Samuel Beckett - ProustRoger Shattuck - Proust’s Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost TimeJoseph Czapski - Proust contre la déchéanceHenry James - The Wings of the DoveStendhal (tr. R. Gard) - The Red and the BlackRobert Jordan - The Great Hunt*Roger Zelazny - Sign of the UnicornRoger Zelazny - The Hand of OberonFyodor Dostoyevsky (tr. D. Magarshack) - The IdiotJunichirō Tanizaki (tr. E. G. Seidensticker) - The Makioka SistersRobert E. Howard - Conan the Barbarian: Complete CollectionRichard Stark - The Black Ice Score*Robert Jordan - Conan the InvincibleLord Dunsany - The King of Elfland’s DaughterMarcel Proust - À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs*Clive James - Gates of Lilac: A Verse Commentary on ProustRobert Jordan - The Dragon RebornRoger Zelazny - The Courts of ChaosLouise Fitzhugh - Harriet the SpyGene Wolfe - Nightside the Long SunGene Wolfe - Lake of the Long SunDorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?Dorothy L. Sayers - Clouds of WitnessMarcel Proust - Le Côté de Guermantes I*Louise Fitzhugh - The Long SecretRobert Jordan - The Shadow Rising
Also parts of:Christopher Clark - The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914*Miguel Tamen - What Art Is Like, In Constant Reference to the Alice Books*Malcolm Bowie - Proust Among the Stars*Richard Moran - The Philosophical Imagination
Comics:Junji Ito - Fragments of Horror, Venus in the Blind SpotPierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières - Valérian et Laureline, l’intégrale, vol. 4-6François Boucq and Alejandro Jodorowsky - Face de Lune, vol. 1-2Christophe Arleston and Adrien Floch - Les Naufragés d’Ythaq, premier voyagePhilippe Ogaki - Terra Prime, vol. 1-4Ryoichi Ikegami - Yuko: Extraits de littérature japonaiseEnki Bilal - Bug, vol. 1-2Frank Miller - Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― jmm, Thursday, 30 December 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
Charles Dickens - Our Mutual FriendP.G. Wodehouse - Right Ho, JeevesFranz Kafka - The MetamorphosisFyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime & PunishmentMuriel Spark - A Far Cry From KensingtonJohn Darnielle - Master of Reality*Charles Dickens - Bleak HouseLeo Tolstoy - Anna KareninaHilary Mantel - Wolf HallHilary Mantel - Bring Up The BodiesCharles Dickens - A Tale of Two CitiesPhilip Roth - American PastoralIan MacDonald - Revolution in the HeadW.G. Sebald - AusterlitzElena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend
*reread
― ceci n'est pas une messi (cajunsunday), Thursday, 30 December 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link