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don delillo’s falling man | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/don-delillos-falling-man
I finished this and i’d like to hear what you guys think. i was somewhat underwhelmed. it’s a good book, but it didn’t seem to me significantly different from the other books published so far on 9/11 on this side of the ocean(s). the themes it centers on seem to have already been explored by others: the haunting of memory (. The writing on the wall. The deterioration of memory (. Dysfunction in the nuclear family as metaphor for/locus of national dysfunction (. The zero, a disorder peculiar to the country.
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giovanna | textualities
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Categories: books we are reading. Mike, blessed be his little cotton socks, teaches me things. one thing he’s taught me is to read mystery fiction as if it’s something that matters. except, now, i don’t know why. It matters. i’ve crawled almost to the end of dennis lahane’s gone, baby, gone. I chose him because he’s explicitly quoted by the wire. Which i haven’t read) in which he highly praised her mystery fiction too, and i thought with pleased amazement: “really? It’s okay to like sara paretsky? Which ...
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South Africa and South African fiction. Categories: books we are reading. Hey friends. So, as promised to Gio, a little bit of background about my recent trip to the Republic of SA, and some reading I’ve been doing–capsule reactions and suggestions. It all came back when I went back to school in the ‘nineties, Continue reading ‘South Africa and South African fiction’. C n adichie’s. Half of a yellow sun. Categories: books we are reading. How will the two couples work out? How does ugwu fit in all this?
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not a particularly good reading stretch | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/not-a-particularly-good-reading-stretch
Not a particularly good reading stretch. And books we are reading. On mike’s suggestion i read david mitchell. A really exceptional book, all the more so if one thinks that it is a first novel. dazzling and original and whimsical and perfectly written. a joy. but then i fell into a bad reading spell, with book after book being a disappointment and me feeling restless and unhappy, as i do when i’m not reading a book that anchors my day in looking-forwarding-to-going-back-to-itness. The fault, if fault is ...
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michael chabon! | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/michael-chabon
Categories: books we are reading. The yiddish policemen union. And i have some thoughts to unload. I love noir like the next person (who loves noir), but i must say that it plays a number on my psyche. the number is 8 — the only number that reads the same upside down. All this i could handle. what i cannot handle is this together with the fast reading pace, the quick humor, the banter, the sassiness, the light-heartedness, the well-disguised cynicism, the brilliance and shininess of the language. Funnily...
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pain of the latter day | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/pain-of-the-latter-day
Pain of the latter day. And books we are reading. Okay let me try. first i’ll explain my feelings about goodreads. i like goodreads. i love lists. i’m a list freak. there are some people who are like this. i am like this. it’s a visceral pleasure that cannot bear the burden of an explanation. it’s the way i am. But these are random personal thoughts. I just finished sherman alexie’s flight. Couldn’t be more commonplace, but, well, is there any other, really? It is a sign of alexie’s tremendous powe...
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mysteries | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/mysteries
Categories: books we are reading. Mike, blessed be his little cotton socks, teaches me things. one thing he’s taught me is to read mystery fiction as if it’s something that matters. except, now, i don’t know why. It matters. i’ve crawled almost to the end of dennis lahane’s gone, baby, gone. I chose him because he’s explicitly quoted by the wire. Which i haven’t read) in which he highly praised her mystery fiction too, and i thought with pleased amazement: “really? It’s okay to like sara paretsky? Which ...
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queen of dreams and a coming-out novel | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/queen-of-dreams-and-a-coming-out-novel
And a coming-out novel. Categories: books we are reading. The coming-out novel is. Among other things, i’ve taken up smoking. By a writer called aoibheann sweeney (first name pronounced like the word “even”). that i remember, i have read exactly three coming-out novels:. Rubyfruit jungle, oranges are not the only fruit. Is a nice book, oddly similar to. Even though the author apparently didn’t read. Responses to “queen of dreams and a coming-out novel”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Another new post | textualities
https://miamibooks.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/another-new-post
Categories: books we are reading. But first go read Gio’s–I loved that Alexie novel she writes about below. I’m gonna cheat, and pull over what I also wrote on goodreads–but while my post is complete there, I’m putting it here to open dialogue–and/or just to keep writing myself. I’m trying to get my head around South African detective fiction, … and unfortunately this is a bad example. (But I’m 80 pages into a good one; more on that soon.). James McClure’s The Blood of an Englishman:. James McClure is pr...
