Showing posts with label Granta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Granta. Show all posts

Friday, 29 April 2016

Books I've actually finished lately: 127


[S]pecialists possess the tremendous stupidity of the force of gravity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (according to Geoff Dyer)

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Books I've actually finished lately: 65






















Why did the garbage have to be personally delivered to the Dumpster at the moment the truck arrived? I don't know, but Old Uzbek does have one hundred different words for crying.
- Elif Batuman

Monday, 14 July 2014

Books I've actually finished lately: 36























James Sallis does Vernon God Little meets Lolita in post-Palahniuk Breaking Bad white-trash noir Napoleon Dynamite with guns. For girls.