So what did I read on that waterlogged day at the beach? My own deathly prose...but no, that's revision, not reading--a necessary distinction, actually, or maybe a fraudulent one. I'm not sure.
Here are some I've read over the past month or so, though, all good:
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Digging to America, by Anne Tyler
The Ha-Ha, by Dave King
Author, Author by David Lodge
And yes, I did read Marley&Me. My dog's really not so ill-behaved, after all.
To buy any of these check out Brazos Bookstore and you'll be helping to support an independent, literary bookstore against the big box takeover of small businesses everywhere.
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Here are the amazing book choices of one Chas Chesterfield:
ReplyDeleteDenis Johnson: Already Dead; Martin Amis: Money;
Michel Houellebecq: Elementary Particles
Charles Bukowski: Factotum;
Thom Jones: The Pugilist at Rest David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas Frederick Exley: A Fan’s Notes Chuck Palaniuk: Stranger than Ficton
David Foster Wallace: Broom of the System
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle;Hocus Pocus
Haruki Murakami: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
Norman Rush: Mating;Mortals
Don Delilo: White Noise
This is good serious stuff, folks. A literate man, despite the image his blog projects...