Matt Snee's Blog, page 90
December 4, 2019
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Currently reading – “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros. Haven’t read short stories for a while so I am getting back into it with this collection. Cisneros is a Latina author best known for her story cycle, “The House on Mango Street”. I read that earlier this year and it was great.
November 29, 2019
November 28, 2019
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Currently reading. Born in 1862 in the Austrian Empire, Arthur Schnitzler was a Viennese contemporary of Sigmund Freud. His work was controversial at the time due to its dark psychological themes and frank depictions of sexuality, and was often subjected to Anti-Semitic attacks (Schnitzler was Jewish). This slim novel, “Dream Story”, was the inspiration for the Stanley Kubrick film “Eyes Wide Shut.”
November 25, 2019
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Currently reading. Leslie Marmon Silko is an award-winning Native-American writer born in 1948. This novel is about a member of the Laguna tribe returning to his reservation after serving in the Pacific in World War 2.
November 22, 2019
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Currently reading. Always wanted to read this comic, so I decided I would. If I like it, I’ll read the rest of the series. I think there are eight books total.
November 21, 2019
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Currently reading. Anna Akhmatova was a Russian poet born in 1889 who suffered under the tyranny of Stalin until her later life “when her international fame could no longer be ignored.” She never emigrated, choosing to document the reality in her native country. Her work was often censored or destroyed. She died in 1966.
November 19, 2019
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Currently reading. Didn’t make it through this the first time. It’s a lot to absorb. Retaining a lot more on a second read through.
November 18, 2019
November 15, 2019
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Currently reading. Jesmyn Ward is an impressive young American writer and the first woman to win the National Book Award twice. She usually writes about the lives of small town African-Americans, and this book deals with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
November 14, 2019
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Currently reading. This was one of Qin’s books, and I first read it about 12 years ago – she was a Nabokov fiend. Published in 1941, it was the first of Nabokov’s books written in English, and it’s about a man trying to research and write a biography of his dead half-brother. Centered around the idea that nothing can be known satisfactorily, especially through language, it is considered a precursor to the postmodern novel.
