Gwynneth Jones is great, Jill. And, of course, Alison's 2 are.
I'm reading mss, which means they may or may not be published. Just
read an old Jonathan Lethem, Amnesia Moon, before trying his
award-winners; weird but well done.
Published in the UK & the US as well as Canada, Miran Toews's A
Complicated Kindness is terribly funny, & then just sadly terrible
about a family slowly falling apart in a small Mennonite village in
Manitoba, narrated by 16 years old Nomi.
I was rereading for sheer pleasure, Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart
mysteries.
Read a lot of books of poetry for review recently, & much of it wasnt
overwhelming, but I would recommend to those who can track it down
(Canadian small press), Meira Cook's Slovenly Love (Brick Books).
Doug
On 12-Sep-05, at 1:05 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
> OK, well, I usually have more than this on the go but these are the
> ones I'm
> either dipping into or have fresh bookmarks partway through:
>
> Wayne Koestenbaum bio of Andy Warhol
> Graham Robb's bio of Rimbaud
> A complete Rimbaud translated by Wyatt Mason
> Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls (essays)
>
> Just finished Michele Leggot's Milk and Honey
> Dipping into Bachelard's The Poetics of Space for a project
>
> And Alison's The Riddle is the one I'm really in the midst of at the
> moment
> (about two thirds the way through) with Gwynneth Jones, Divine
> Endurance,
> waiting in the wings.
>
> All recommended, though the Gwynneth Jones by implication as I haven't
> read it
> but I'm liking the picture of the cat on the cover and she's another
> Jonesy
> (as was the cat in Alien, come to think of it). I'm not shallow.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
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