I started reading The Master and Margarita , but bailed about 1/3 of the way through. Didn't hold my interest enough, and was hard trying to figure out who's who.

Now reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad .


This is one of the only books on my shelf I never finished, and it has ...

Cherie Nutting with Paul Bowles, Yesterday's Perfume . What little Bowles says about himself in here is more than what he says in his entire autobiography probably. In here we learn why.


Nice. The man who recorded the last ever Islamic call the prayer that wasn't electrified in Morocco, and a ...

The Flavor of Wood: In Search of the Wild Taste of Trees from Smoke and Sap to Root and Bark by Artur Cisar-Erlach
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50157976-the-flavor-of-wood

Recently finished While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer after reading that it was about the era of the Berlin wall. It ...

This second, or the one that passed while I was reading this? Nothing, my mind was clear.

Iancee wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:56 am Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner

- excellent book- highly recommend

This was pretty good. It had that very "existentialist french novel" kind of feel. I enjoyed "Orbital" and "James" from the Booker award winners better.

I'm almost finished with The Adventures of Amina-Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty, picked up from the Hugo awards. It's a kind of fantasy sci-fi about a female pirate from the Arabic Gulf, based in the times of the Indian Empire when trade relied on the winds. It has a lot of Arabic culture woven ...