Tag: art
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Sci Fi in Spring
Three speculative books in the new season. Hoping to fix my reading habits just a bit. Maybe go back and finish some books I didn’t complete last month? Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may…
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The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
Feeling totally wild about this Pavese. It was translated terribly enough to be constantly noticeable. Goodreads reviews mentioned this as well, which relieved me — as a monolingual person, I’m often just nervous that the writing style isn’t for me. In this book, it’s beyond awkward — many choices are just bad (“she was in…
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Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
While this book had a few failures of world-building, I was utterly captivated and obsessively read the entire book in long sittings. I look forward to reading more by Lacey. From the publisher: When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good…
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Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin
I was warned that this one would be “weird.” And it was! I didn’t realize this was by the same author as Blackfishing the IUD, which had great rapport among booksellers I knew when it came out. In this small, intriguing novel, the main character is dealing with a molding house, a traumatic yet quotidian…
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Autumn by Ali Smith
I haven’t read any of Ali Smith’s books before, but found Winter in a store recently and flipped through. I liked the writing style, upon an absent first glance, and poked around to find out which in the quartet came first. And at 11pm last night, Autumn popped into my Libby app. Maybe ‘cause it…
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New Find: C Magazine
Do you ever peruse magazine sections in stores and libraries, hoping you’ll find something new and miraculous but assuming it’ll be just more issues of Home and Garden mags? Ignore this question if you’re in a city like New York with lots of extensive and surprising magazine shops. This question requires the experience of being…