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[ejp626]

A lot of short stories this Dec.:

Lucia Berlin - A Manual for Cleaning Women

Joy Williams - Taking Care

Alice Munro - Runaway

[jlhoots]

Richard Price: Lazarus Man

[jazzbo]

[jlhoots]

Kevin Barry: City Of Bohane

[rostasi]

[Brad]

 

about 2/3 way through. I’d say it’s on a level with his James, which was one of the best books I read this year. 

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music

Edited December 19, 2024 by rostasi

[ghost of miles]

Black Boy (American Hunger) from this Library of America volume. About 100 pages in—harrowing and written in a riveting manner. His rendering of his childhood experiences is vivid and makes the weight of racism upon him and those around him disturbingly visceral. 
 

 

[jlhoots]

Ramona Emerson: Exposure

[jlhoots]

Kaveh Akbar: Martyr!

[jazzbo]

Re-reading

[rostasi]

[Brad]

[ejp626]

Just wrapping up the 3rd (of 7) novellas that make up Mutis's Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (NYRB).  I had read these first three not long after the English translations came out, but then never got around to the rest.  But NYRB published all of them in one volume, which I have finally gotten around to reading.  The remaining stories will all be new to me.

 

I'm also wrapping up Alice Munro's Runaway.  I wanted to make sure I had read the first half of the collection before watching Almodovar's Julieta, as the film is based on 3 of her stories.

[GA Russell]

Cannot recommend.  Chick lit.

[JSngry]

6 hours ago, GA Russell said:

Cannot recommend.  Chick lit.

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