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Brickmakers by Selva Almada
I could never, not once, in the whole 181 pages figure out who belonged to which family and it did not detract form how much I loved every single second reading this book. Also that cover, also a woman in a bakery asked me if I was poetry, no but also not no.
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Monstrilio was a monster and everything about him was red... stories about queer monsters is the genre I didn't know I needed. It's ok M, you can eat all the men I've met on dating apps too!
We Do Not Part by Han Kang
The beauty is matched only by the brutality around and around and around. Breathtaking, literally.
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Siss and Unn! I am shipping for these girls! My favorite gay couple in a “not gay” book. So there!
The Singularity by Balsam Karam
Despite the word corniche appearing a minimum of 4 times on every page and looking it up twice, I still don’t understand what it is or how it can glow.
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Like little women but for the strange and unusual…kind of, not really. Loved it. Read for Arizona.
Cockroaches by Scholastique Mukasonga
This book has a real problem of the telling vs showing issue. The tone is emotionally restrained, reads more like a list. the style of writing didn't work for me, I wanted richness and depth and was left dragging myself to the end and wondering what the point was.
A Shining by Jon Fosse
1.0
Read for Norway. Then found out I already read a book for Norway which somehow feels like the perfect metaphor for my experience of reading this book.