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What Are You Reading This Holiday?
These are mine. What do you plan to enjoy over the long weekend?
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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So Much for the Granta
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
I’m hitting Rita Indiana’s “La estrategia de Chochueca”, Rafa Franco Steeves “El peor de mis amigos”, and a re-reading of Murakami’s “After Dark”.
I’ve committed to tackling War & Peace. Thank goodness my family isn’t that celebratory.
While keeping at Lord Jim and an OP novel from 1964 by Macdonald Harris, Mortal Leap, I’m ambitiously thinking that I’m also going to fight my way through Julio Cortazar’s Los Reyes in Spanish, dictionary in hand.
More likely, I’ll get frustrated and give up, as my Spanish is poor. But I’m going to make the effort!
I’m in the same situation as anon: non-celebratory family + big book in the bag, but mine’s Omega Minor. (But the rest of you remind me of the old me with your lists. Today I have finally admitted to myself that I cannot realistically read three or four books over a long weekend.)
I will be reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Barchester Towers.
The Sixties Unplugged by Gerard De Groot
Brilliant Orange by David Winner
The Mother’s Mouth by Dash Shaw
Perverting Perversions by Sylvie Lotringer
Art Power by Boris Groys
Death: A comedy in one act by Woody Allen
Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels
That’s what on my nightstand. I don’t know which one I will pick up first.
Going to start and finish The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Mark Z. Danielewski, ‘House of Leaves’. If I have time, I might go back and revisit O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels.
It’s a weird mix of genres, really– an intellectual horror and a fantastic historical fiction series.
I’m reading Yalo by Elias Khoury.
Virginia Woolf’s Second Common Reader and Moi’s book on Ibsen.