Tag: marriage
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In the Act by Rachel Ingalls
This was quite fun! From the publisher, New Directions: In the Act begins: “As long as Helen was attending her adult education classes twice a week, everything worked out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was.” In Rachel Ingalls’s blissfully deranged novella, the “whatever it…
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Family After Capitalism and Death
I just read a couple more books — one through BookRiot’s marvelous Daily Deals aggregator, one (finally!) that I bought from a used bookstore on my trip this summer. L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com) follows the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — Eurydice, who’s suffered an untimely death, and Orpheus, her…
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New Purchases I’d Love To Read… One Day
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls From the publisher, New Directions: In the Act begins: “As long as Helen was attending her adult education classes twice a week, everything worked out fine: Edgar could have a completely quiet house for his work, or his thinking, or whatever it was.” In Rachel Ingalls’s blissfully deranged novella,…
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A Room with A View by E.M. Forster
Anything set in Italy will do, at this point. I was glad to read this story of confined, proper society, set ablaze by Italy, modern ideals, and music. Ha! From PRH: E.M. Forster’s beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte…
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Concerning My Daughter and Nightbitch
I bought a used eReader and immediately downloaded these two short reads. Neither was on my To Read list, per se, but once in a while I would think about reading them. Concerning my Daughter, by Kim Hye-Jin, translated by Jamie Chang (Restless Books) Concerning My Daughter is about an aging Korean woman whose daughter…
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Journey by Moonlight, by Antal Szerb
I loved this book! Prose was tight and clear yet beautiful. The plot moved at a reliable pace, which worked really well in concert with all the twists and tangles of the characters’ lives. The translator (Len Rix)’s work seems really deft and thoughtful here. From the publisher (NYRB’s description, much much preferable to the…
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Two quick reads and a novel in progress
This week I had a hard time finding something I was in the mood for. Stranded in the no-man’s-land of midnight sleeplessness, a copy of Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop popped up in Libby & I read the thing in one go. Is it good, in that resonant way that bodes repeated reading? No. But…
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Early August Reads
Just finished these two, both from the library. I expected to like Dept. of Speculation a lot more, based on my total adoration of Weather. But it took me almost the whole length of the book to start feeling like I was really enjoying it. Annie Ernaux, I’ve never read before. This was a thoughtful,…