Still playing catch-up.

116. Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf

Wonderfully impressionistic, it tells the story of Jacob Flanders, from boyhood to his death in the war.

117. The Boy Who Followed Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith

The fourth in the five book series. Not as strong as the previous three, but fun nonetheless.

118. I Can Say Interpellation!, by Stephen Cain

In this work of détournement, Stephen Cain riffs off ten popular children’s rhymes to produce radical and politically charged poems. The repurposed stories deal, often brutally, with racial politics, climate change, drug use, rampant capitalism and consumer culture, among other horrors of the modern world.

For a full review see Broken Pencil, issue 54. Continue reading »

This is what $60 of books looks like when you shop at BMV. I love BMV.⁽¹⁾

I picked up a lot of good stuff:

• A Model World and Other Stories, by Michael Chabon
• The Essential Tales of Chekov, edited by Richard Ford
• The Burning Alphabet, by Barry Dempster
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
• The Talented Mr Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
• The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
• Friend of My Youth, by Alice Munro
• Open Secrets, by Alice Munro
• Jacob’s Room, by Virginia Woolf

Have I mentioned that I love BMV?

This should keep me busy for at least a week or two. Rock on.

Footnotes:

1. $61.86 taxes included, to be precise. [↩]