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2023-01-01

I like #LeeMiller's photographs a lot. I was hoping to discover more about her from Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, but I found it more speculative than grounded in evidence and, despite being written by three women who were aiming to position Miller as a key player in #BritishSurrealism, spent too much time talking about the men historically at the forefront of the movement.

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2023-01-01

What I read in 2022

I managed (more or less) 60 books last year. More or less because I had 10 pages left of my last read of the year as the calendar clicked over.

I had 16 five star reads. My favourites of these were #Villager by #TomCox, #ThirstySea by #EricaMou, #MuscleAndMouth by #LouiseFinnigan, #BreastsAndEggs by #MiekoKawakami, and the #ShortStory collection #TheBookOfRamallah from #CommaPress.

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A screen grab of the first page of book covers for the books the image poster read in 2022, catalogued on LibraryThing.A screen grab of the second page of book covers for the books the image poster read in 2022, catalogued on LibraryThing.
2022-12-03

My last read for #NovellasInNovember - I didn't quite finish it in November because it demanded slow reading and reflection of me.

The Sense of an Ending is a story about the paradoxes of existence, the unreliability of memory and the way we curate our memories to tell a manipulated version of the story of our lives.

It's utterly brilliant.

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2022-11-20

A Very Normal Man tells the curious tale of Giovanni Vivaldi, a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, working towards his own retirement when a swift and shocking tragedy occurs.

The tragedy leads to a moment of decision that takes an unexpected turn, with Giovanni taking a brutal revenge on the perpetrator of the tragedy.

I loved it.

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2022-11-19

My first review link on here. My first Philip Roth.

Full of dense description, with every character an individual not a type, it examines who we are, who we pretend to be, and what happens when trauma shatters our idea of ourselves.

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