Little Women by Louise May Alcott
This post is not so much a review as an exercise in the remembering of how much I enjoy the existence of this work and Louisa May Alcott’s lasting legacy on our contemporary culture.
The Timekeeper by Mitch Albom
Albom manages to conjure the emotion and logic of a deeply reflective pastor, without tipping into a spiral of dogma and painful fallacies.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Its writers like N. K. Jemisin that remind you that the world didn’t stop writing when a bunch of old white people up and died in the late nineteenth century.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
‘A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment … so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head.’
ALBUM: Experimental Projects A (EP)
I would recommend experiencing this collection in the composer’s order, in a quiet space, with the weight of a grey afternoon pressing in on the window.
Go Tell It On The Mountain
If you think To Kill a Mockingbird was ‘important’, or ‘eye-opening’ for you, then Go Tell It On the Mountain will ram home just how much you don’t, and perhaps never really will, truly understand.
Abidjan USA
First published: 2016 Found: Part of course readings Pages/read time: 350, two days Comments: This is definitely not a book I would have read unless I’d had to. Admittedly, I have little … Continue reading
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Year of publication: 1969 Found: On a book club reading list Pages/Read time: 304, three days The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of … Continue reading
POETRY: Ariel (The Restored Edition)
Year of publication: 2004 (poems written 1961-62) Found: Second hand at the uni co-op Pages/Read time: 211, two weeks of lunch-break reading at work I have your head on my … Continue reading
Tuesdays With Morrie
If it weren’t for the delightful Morrie, I’d would seriously have considered putting the book right back where I found it.
To Kill a Mockingbird
TW: mentions rape in context of plot discussion Year/place of publication: 1960, USA Found: ‘Free to a good home’ left in a school corridor at the end of Year 10 … Continue reading
Americanah
Year of publication: 2013 Found: Book-club reading list Pages/read time: 477, three days Comments: Book clubs are wondrous things. A well run club with dedicated readers, expert listeners and considerate … Continue reading
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Year of publication: 1987 Found: Bought as a gift to my mother who loves the film version Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) Pages/Read time: 403, three days Comments: I first encountered … Continue reading
The Handmaid’s Tale
After reading the blurb I freaked out a bit – who was sending me anonymous books in the mail about mass environmental extinction and slave-like breeding programs for fertile women?
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
‘Savannah’s resistance to change was it’s saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in … Continue reading
What Maisie Knew
Maisie’s father marries Maisie’s governess, her mother marries a member of the gentry and a second, elderly governess falls in love with the self-same gentleman.
Ellan - things I've read 