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The Blazing World, adult fiction by Siri Hustvedt.
Heart of Darkness, adult fiction by Joseph Conrad, reread for teaching.
The Bluest Eye, adult fiction by Toni Morrison, same.
Fist Stick Knife Gun, young-adult nonfiction in my opinion, by Geoffrey Canada, for advisory.
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A God In Ruins, adult fiction by Kate Atkinson ( Read more... ) -
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Sula, adult fiction by Toni Morrison, reread.
Medicine Walk, adult fiction by Richard Wagamese, terrible. Like a high school student tried to mimic it.
Most useful parenting reread: The Nursing Mother's Companion, also my new go-to pregnancy gift. Orderly and wholehearted. -
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Begun and abandoned: Brick Lane, adult fiction by Monica Ali, and another whose name I forget, both for gratuitous death of beloved child, once at the one-third mark, once on page four ( Read more... ) -
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My Struggle, adult fiction by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett, and it was one. (He puts the water in the pot. Then he turns on the stove. Then, when the water boils, he puts the rice in. And so on ( Read more... ) -
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Sacred Hunger, adult fiction by Barry Unsworth, reread ( Read more... ) -
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Parable of the Sower, adult fiction by Octavia Butler ( Read more... ) -
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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves, adult nonfiction by Siri Hustvedt, but I kind of wish I hadn't, because we're reading her novel, and it's good, and this is the sort of annoying term paper that diminishes the text it's meant to deconstruct.
Completed, short story Jacqueline, and short story Life's Work, and miscellany. -
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Torch, adult fiction by Cheryl Strayed.
Fortunate Son, adult fiction by Walter Mosely.
Migratory Animals, adult fiction by Mary Helen Specht, featuring an eerily familiar "Marsh University" for Texan nerds, architects, and engineers. -
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We Are Not Ourselves, adult fiction by Matthew Thomas. Ten out of ten for enjoyable noveliness but the plot comes at the expense of the characters. If a woman had written it, we'd call it chick lit, not the Next American Novel ( Read more... )