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Books Read: Days of Innocence and Wonder...
Books Read: Erasure by Percival Everett
Movies Watched: No Hard Feelings, direct...
Books Read: The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyd...
Books Read: The Ministry of Times by Kal...
National Book Critics Circle 2018 shortl...
The Wall by John Lanchester
Resistance by Julian Fuks, translated by...
I Miss The World by Violet LeVoit
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan ...
Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephant...
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Small Press is the best *and* they have ...
The PKD Award shortlist has been announc...
Mem by Bethany C. Morrow
Believe It Or Not It’s The Believe...
Who The Fuck Blogs These Days?
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee (Solaris)
The Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Wat...
The Overstory by Richard Powers (W. W. N...
Missing by Alison Moore (Salt)
Excession by Iain M Banks (Orbit)
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz (translat...
West by Carys Davies (Scribner)
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
The State Of The Art by Iain M. Banks (O...
Time Was by Ian McDonald (Tor Novella)
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt (And ...
Animal Lovers by Rob Palk (Sandstone Pre...
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller (Ecco)
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison (Algonquin B...
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Sa...
The Tea Master and the Detective Aliette...
Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima, trans Dan...
The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne (Tin Ho...
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Al...
Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin (Co...
Bash Bash Revolution by Douglas Lain (Ni...
The Smoke by Simon Ings (Gollancz)
Sealed by Naomi Booth (Dead Ink)
The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath...
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Wr...
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi...
Sight by Jessie Greengrass (John Murray)
Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by K...
Berg by Ann Quin (Marion Boyars)
Census by Jesse Ball (Ecco)
And the winner is… (Award-Palooza ...
Mothers by Chris Powers (Faber & Fa...
Brief Thoughts on The Kitschies shortlis...
Murmur by Will Eaves (CB Editions)
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
Gaudy Bauble by Isabel Waidner (Dostoyev...
And the Winnner is… National Book ...
The Only Story by Julian Barnes (Jonatha...
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’...
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (Simon &...
Brief Thoughts on the Arthur C. Clarke A...
The Briefest of Brief Thoughts on the Ma...
The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow...
King Zeno by Nathaniel Rich (MCD)
Brief Thoughts on the longlist for the W...
The Alarming Palsy of James Orr by Tom L...
Peach by Emma Glass (Bloomsbury)
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Or...
The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith...
The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke ...
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (Little, Brown ...
Brief Thoughts On This Year’s Nebu...
The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade...
Briefs Thoughts On This Year’s Dit...
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott (Farra...
Brief Thoughts On This Year’s BSFA...
Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (Picad...
Brief Thoughts On This Year’s Aure...
Improvement by Joan Silber (Counterpoint...
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (G.P....
Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Oko...
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway (William Heinema...
The Afterlives by Thomas Pierce (Riverhe...
Lullaby by Leila Slimani (Faber & F...
Austral by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
The Finalists for the National Book Crit...
The White Book by Han Kang, translated b...
The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White...
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Willia...
What It Means When A Man Falls From The ...
The Nominees for The 2018 Philip K. Dick...
Darker With The Lights On by David Hayde...
The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford (Tor...
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomo...
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
Conversations with Friends by Sally Roon...
My Top Books for 2017
Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Ade...
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan
The Haunting of Henry Twist by Rebecca F...
The Clocks in This House All Tell Differ...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by G...
Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary
Under A Pole Star by Stef Penney
Winter by Ali Smith
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume
The King Is Always Above The People by D...
Phone by Will Self
Playing Possum by Kevin Davey
Dark At The Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Mar...
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson ...
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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Books Read: The Glutton by A. E. Blakemore
by Mondyboy | Apr 9, 2024 | Book Reviews | 0
The Glutton is a fictionalised account of Tarrare (spelt in the novel as Tarare), a showman,...
Read MoreBooks Read: Days of Innocence and Wonder by Lucy Treloar
by Mondyboy | Apr 6, 2024 | Book Reviews | 0
I didn’t get along with this novel. I need to take some of the blame here. There’s an understated...
Read MoreBooks Read: Erasure by Percival Everett
by Mondyboy | Apr 4, 2024 | Book Reviews | 0
I read this for a couple of reasons. One, I’ve been meaning to read Everett since I picked up a...
Read MoreMovies Watched: No Hard Feelings, directed by Gene Stupnitsky
by Mondyboy | Apr 2, 2024 | Movie Reviews | 0
This movie is better than it has any right to be. And that’s for one reason and one reason only:...
Read MoreBooks Read: The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyde
by Mondyboy | Apr 1, 2024 | Book Reviews | 0
I have similar feelings toward The Godwits Fly as I do to Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! –...
Read MoreBooks Read: The Ministry of Times by Kaliane Bradley
by Mondyboy | Apr 1, 2024 | Book Reviews | 0 |
I love that the literary mainstream has adopted time travel; it’s no longer just the province of...
Read MoreNational Book Critics Circle 2018 shortlist (for fiction)
In which I fail to speculate why the National Book Critics Circle isn’t a square.
Read MoreThe Wall by John Lanchester
by Mondyboy | Feb 6, 2019 | Book Reviews | 0
In which powerful themes about climate change and immigration are let down a tad by a ho-hum plot.
Read MoreResistance by Julian Fuks, translated by Daniel Hahn
by Mondyboy | Feb 4, 2019 | Book Reviews | 0
In which I learn a little bit about Argentina’s “Dirty War” and a stolen decade of children.
Read MoreI Miss The World by Violet LeVoit
by Mondyboy | Feb 2, 2019 | Book Reviews | 0
In which I don’t let my ignorance get in the way of a terrific book.
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