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Post by irvred on Oct 10, 2022 11:20:31 GMT -6
Ugh I liked-not-loved Eileen, R&R, and Death in Her Hands but Lapvona’s been pretty whatever so far. I’m like 2/3rds through it and I’m not sure what I’m getting from it other than revulsion (which I’m not opposed to but eh)
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 10, 2022 12:17:56 GMT -6
I've only read R&R and Lapvona and definitely preferred the former. I think there is a lot going on besides the revulsion in Lapvona, but the approach to developing the throughline among the characters is kind of scattershot (maybe intentionally?). imo it kind of comes together by showing that all these people have created self-aggrandizing and often cruel philosophies and justifications for themselves in horrifying circumstances to feel like they have a chance of salvation, solace or survival.
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Post by sthubbins on Oct 10, 2022 12:18:16 GMT -6
Others I've talked to raved about Eileen so I'll get to that one at some point
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Post by sthubbins on Nov 10, 2022 10:33:50 GMT -6
2022 so far: Normal People by Sally Rooney Aggamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Quarry by Susan Howe The Selfishness of Others by Kristin Dombek Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Long Division by Kiese Laymon Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh Transit by Rachel Cusk Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (warning: probably the most racist book I've ever read!) Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler Real Life by Brandon Taylor Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Now: Mating by Norman Rush Erasure by Percival Everett On deck: Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv |
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Post by Tweet on Nov 10, 2022 10:43:59 GMT -6
One of my goals for 2022 was to read a book a month. Happy to report that I hit that goal 2 months and some change ahead of schedule. Hoping to tackle 2-3 more before the end of the year, but here’s what I’ve got so far: The Night the Lights Went Out- drew Margary Razorblade Tears- S.A Cosby Sapiens: a Brief history of human kind- Yuval Noah Harari Mr. Burns- Anne Washburn (play) The Nineties- Chuck Klosterman Devil House- John Darinelle #nevergiveup- Ruppert Jones Three Girls From Bronzeville- Dawn Turner Sons of Wichita- Daniel Schulman The Elevated Communicator- Maryanne O’Brien Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner Mox- Jon Moxley How to Lie with Statistics Plainsong by Kent Haruf About 1/3 of the way thru The Autobiography of Malcolm X currently |
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Post by kb on Dec 4, 2022 17:07:11 GMT -6
for *reasons,* i decided to read "night" again, and it sure hits different this time around.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Dec 4, 2022 19:08:54 GMT -6
I’m working through The Passion According To G.H. by Clarice Lispector rn and am simultaneously bemused by and obsessed with her style. Basically 170 pages of a woman having an existential crisis / breakdown upon accidentally killing a cockroach in her apartment.
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Post by zircona1 on Dec 5, 2022 8:16:59 GMT -6
I’m working through The Passion According To G.H. by Clarice Lispector rn and am simultaneously bemused by and obsessed with her style. Basically 170 pages of a woman having an existential crisis / breakdown upon accidentally killing a cockroach in her apartment. I read that recently too, and man, it was a slog. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Dec 5, 2022 9:23:44 GMT -6
I’m working through The Passion According To G.H. by Clarice Lispector rn and am simultaneously bemused by and obsessed with her style. Basically 170 pages of a woman having an existential crisis / breakdown upon accidentally killing a cockroach in her apartment. I read that recently too, and man, it was a slog. I'm not sure I'm oscillated this heavily between "I love this shit" and "Oh my god when will this end" since ever? Maybe since like "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller"? Truly a trip. |
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Post by scoots on Dec 21, 2022 21:17:07 GMT -6
Books read this year: 17
Concerts attended this year: 16
Truly wild.
Not anticipating adding another completed book unless I absolutely rip through Jazz, so here's my list:
Nina Simone’s Gum (Ellis)
100 Years of Solitude (Marquez)
How To Be Perfect (Schur)
Batman: The Long Halloween (Loeb)
Phantom Plague (Krishnan)
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway)
A Man Called Ove (Backman)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
Age of Cage (Phipps)
Let Me Finish (Angell)
The Club (Clegg)
No Country For Old Men (McCarthy)
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Aburraqib)
I'm keeping Batman on the list. Do not care.
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Post by clouddead on Dec 21, 2022 22:04:28 GMT -6
The Long Halloween is a good one. Gotta give Calendar Man some actual screen time in a movie.
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Post by goodson on Dec 22, 2022 8:48:28 GMT -6
favorite reads of 2022
among the thugs, bill buford
sun also rises, hemingway
harmony ideology - justice and control in a zapotec mountain village, laura nadler
elementary particles, houellebecq
submission, houellebecq
cocaine nights, ballard
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Post by zircona1 on Dec 22, 2022 9:02:00 GMT -6
Currently re-reading Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
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Post by Pale Hose on Dec 29, 2022 13:30:46 GMT -6
Heat 2 was great, and I loved that a large part of the story takes place in Chicago. I think Mann was smart to release it as a novel, but I would be surprised if it doesn't eventually get adopted into a film or series, with all characters being re-cast.
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Post by dij22 on Dec 29, 2022 14:39:04 GMT -6
Probably the best short story collection I've ever read. Taught it for the first time this year and it went really well.  |
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Post by sthubbins on Jan 1, 2023 11:46:09 GMT -6
2022 so far: Normal People by Sally Rooney Aggamemnon's Daughter by Ismail Kadare Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Quarry by Susan Howe The Selfishness of Others by Kristin Dombek Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Long Division by Kiese Laymon Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh Transit by Rachel Cusk Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (warning: probably the most racist book I've ever read!) Lapvona by Otessa Moshfegh How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler Real Life by Brandon Taylor Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Mating by Norman Rush Erasure by Percival Everett Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv Well, this ended up being my full list for the year. I also started Midnight's Children. |
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Post by Tweet on Jan 1, 2023 11:51:37 GMT -6
My goal is 20 for this year. Still haven't finished Malcolm X so not sure if it counts for 2023 or what. Think I can do it.
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Post by jazzpolice on Jan 1, 2023 12:52:18 GMT -6
Was hoping for at least 30, but only did 21
Dear Child - Romy Hausmann
There There - Tommy Orange
Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
Memorial - Bryan Washington
Billy Summers - Stephen King
Devil House - John Darnielle
Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
She Rides Shotgun - Jordan Harper
The Silver Arrow - Lev Grossman
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
The Fisherman - John Langan
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Kindred - Octavia Butler
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Didn’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened to Carlotta - James Hannaham
Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones
A Heart That Works - Rob Delaney
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Post by dij22 on Jan 4, 2023 9:18:33 GMT -6
I read Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her, which is stunning.
Also read You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. It was a huge pile of shit.
1 for 2 to start off 2023.
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Post by krentist on Jan 4, 2023 9:58:20 GMT -6
Was Junot Diaz cancelled or not?
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Post by alady on Jan 4, 2023 12:02:15 GMT -6
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan The Candy House - Jennifer Egan I was so excited for the latter to come out but it's sat in my "to be read" pile all year; the former is one of my favorite books. |
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Post by dij22 on Jan 8, 2023 13:55:59 GMT -6
I'm taking a couple of English classes this semester and I got the booklist for one of them. I've read the first two already, but anyone read any of the others?
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
American War by Omar El Akkad
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
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Post by Tweet on Jan 16, 2023 15:42:07 GMT -6
In addition to my Letterboxd escapades today I also made a goodreads account. I have...not read a lot of books in my life, although if I added all the theatre scripts and plays I've read/worked on it'd probably be double what it is now.
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Post by clouddead on Jan 16, 2023 16:27:52 GMT -6
Ever read the script for The Boys Next Door?
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Post by Tweet on Jan 16, 2023 19:19:40 GMT -6
Ever read the script for The Boys Next Door? Nah but looking at the Wikipedia synopsis I probably should |
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Post by thebosma on Jan 16, 2023 19:34:58 GMT -6
I read Slouching Towards Bethlehem on vacation and I think I might read the rest of the Didion nonfiction stuff before the end of the year. Really beautiful
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Post by scoots on Jan 31, 2023 7:55:09 GMT -6
This month:
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin
Only had a vague idea of what Beloved was about going in, and dang that was a doozy.
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Post by dij22 on Jan 31, 2023 8:00:29 GMT -6
Beloved by Toni Morrison Only had a vague idea of what Beloved was about going in, and dang that was a doozy. Possibly the best novel ever |
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Post by sthubbins on Jan 31, 2023 9:45:56 GMT -6
2023 so far:
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushie
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
Now:
10 Days That Shook the World by John Reed
Taking Care by Joy Williams
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jan 31, 2023 9:54:14 GMT -6
I like this monthly update idea - let's keep that up this year
January 2023:
-- Dept of Speculation - Jenny Offill
-- Country Music USA - Bill Malone
-- Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler - Richard Koloda
-- The River Between - Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Currently reading:
-- Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
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