Despite having developed a rather reliable picker as regards books (picker is unfortunately rather poor with most other life choices), I sometimes buy and read the odd palate-cleanser, which means a literary mid-snack between very good books so as to appreciate superb writing afterwards.
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The following makes me sound like I’m the kind of person who has elaborate liquid lunches at restaurants with fellow bloggers, but after a recent a liquid lunch with a fellow blogger we ended up in a bookstore and she casually recommended a book she’d discovered somewhere online.
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I had already concluded that I’d reached the saturation point of millennial novels (ie. very thinly veiled auto-fiction). You know the type: (stereo)typically a 30-something kid moans about how unfair and politically incorrect the world is, adds a couple of words about their journey of learning to cope with everything by creating a safe space of some sort, and all this without any self-reflection. The End.
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I start preparing for the holiday season by dusting off my old copy of The Secret History, which I have read almost every Christmas since I first unwrapped it in 1993. This means I’ve read Donna Tartt’s Modern Classic embarrassingly many times.
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We’ve entered the most hectic of the hectic days – those just before Christmas. Despite mutating pestilences, we have, again, managed to get the world ready just in time before the holidays, and can finally start stressing about the real question: how many books from Barack Obama’s 2021 favourites list did we read this past year?
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Despite struggling to produce full sentences, I have been spoiling myself with the wisdom of some literary giants lately. I attended an online literary discussion between Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates earlier this autumn, and just finished Alexander Chee’s brilliant essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Herewith thoughts.
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