Matt Snee's Blog, page 87
February 2, 2020
Currently reading.
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Currently reading – The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter.
February 1, 2020
Currently reading.
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Currently reading – Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid. Kincaid is a American novelist and essayist born in Antigua in 1949. This book is about a young girl coming of age in Antigua.
January 30, 2020
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Currently reading – Serious Noticing by James Wood. Twenty years of essays from the famous literary critic.
January 29, 2020
The Best
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According to Goodreads I read 144 books in 2019. But this – Lorrie Moore’s Anagrams – was the best. It broke my brain AND my heart. This is what great literature is.
January 28, 2020
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Currently reading – The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Divakaruni is an Indian-American writer born in Calcutta in 1956. These are her short stories.
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Currently reading – The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative by William Labov. Labov is an American linguist born in 1927. Been getting interested in the ancient art of oral storytelling.
January 26, 2020
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Currently reading – The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. This is a graphic novel of a young girl growing up in Tehran and escaping the Iranian Revolution. Trying to read more graphic novels.
January 25, 2020
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Currently reading – Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Can’t fuck with this dude.
January 24, 2020
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Currently reading – According to the Law by Solvej Balle. Just look at this poor piece of shit I got when I ordered a used copy of this obscure Danish book. This is some sad, unwanted shit.
January 23, 2020
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Currently reading – Cleanness by Garth Greenwell. Greenwell is an American poet, author, and critic born in 1978. This book depicts a gay man’s adventures in love and sex in Bulgaria.
