I have read several books thanks to my semester ending "early"!
Mexican Gothic, one of our runner ups in our October selection and a lovecraftian/guillermo del toro style gothic romance by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It is a slow-burner of a book, but when it picks up, it doesn't let off the gas. The mystery of the Hill Place House wouldn't let me put it down.
The Only Good Indians, another runner up in our October selection, this one a ghost story/revenge haunting of four native americans who commit a violation against mother nature and nature wants its due. The opposite of a slow burner, I devoured this book as well, could not put it down. But the tension builds and snaps, builds and snaps. I loved it so much.
THICK by Tressie McMillan Cottom, it's been a while since I read something more on the "academic" side of things. A fascinating insight into the personal life and sociological study of Black Women by a Black Woman. Moving, funny, enraging, and saddening all at once. I think it is decidedly left of liberal, and wish it had been more explicit in its leftish outlook, but it was insightful nonetheless.
John Berger: Selected Essays or Selected Essays: John Berger (?), edited by Geoff Dyer. John Berger was a prolific author, so the problem of "where do I start?" has hopefully been tackled to some degree of success with this collection. I am only in the beginning pages, but he is an unapologetically socialist, art critic, and thinker. I find his writing completely different from what I am used to, and therefore a breath of fresh air.
I have read several books thanks to my semester ending "early"!
Mexican Gothic, one of our runner ups in our October selection and a lovecraftian/guillermo del toro style gothic romance by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It is a slow-burner of a book, but when it picks up, it doesn't let off the gas. The mystery of the Hill Place House wouldn't let me put it down.
The Only Good Indians, another runner up in our October selection, this one a ghost story/revenge haunting of four native americans who commit a violation against mother nature and nature wants its due. The opposite of a slow burner, I devoured this book as well, could not put it down. But the tension builds and snaps, builds and snaps. I loved it so much.
THICK by Tressie McMillan Cottom, it's been a while since I read something more on the "academic" side of things. A fascinating insight into the personal life and sociological study of Black Women by a Black Woman. Moving, funny, enraging, and saddening all at once. I think it is decidedly left of liberal, and wish it had been more explicit in its leftish outlook, but it was insightful nonetheless.
John Berger: Selected Essays or Selected Essays: John Berger (?), edited by Geoff Dyer. John Berger was a prolific author, so the problem of "where do I start?" has hopefully been tackled to some degree of success with this collection. I am only in the beginning pages, but he is an unapologetically socialist, art critic, and thinker. I find his writing completely different from what I am used to, and therefore a breath of fresh air.