I’m trying to read a book a day and generally failing, though reading more than I otherwise would. Today’s selection (and yesterday’s and the day before’s) was Lauren Groff’s Arcadia. It’s a sparkling tale that follows a bit of a boy as he grows up with his parents in a hippie commune in the woods, …
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JS Bookshelf: 10/25-11/1
Each week I hope to share here some of the books constructing my nightstand. Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child. It’s his first novel since The Line of Beauty won the Booker in 2004, and The Child is just as beautiful and subversively steamy as we’ve come to expect from Hollinghurst; it’s also more narratively complex–spanning …
where did I read that?
I once read somewhere that regardless of whether we remember a book’s thesis or indeed whether we read the book at all, we are fundamentally and subconsciously changed by every book we read. I reference this unattributable statement in order to justify a further statement of dubious attribution: the best reading lists are linear. Rather …
Goat anyone? 