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Orlando vibes, Kafka vibes, fun weirdness vibes. I will likely be reading more of Oyeyemi, and the other writers she mentions in interviews (linked after the “more” jump.)

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2024-06-18

Threatened at knifepoint: “Write your Prague novel this year!”

Write or die: Is that the kind of pressure I need to write something? Would it work for me?

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Interviews I read:

• Helen Oyeyemi: ‘I like other humans mediated through art’ | Helen Oyeyemi | The Guardian
• Helen Oyeyemi Thinks We Should Read More and Stay in Touch Less | The New Yorker (behind paywall, but I have Apple News+ for some reason)

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Parasol Against the Axe

Fun, adventurous story, art is excellent, themes and message are amazing.

Need to write a real review soon. I’m always saying that.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Plain Jane and the Mermaid

It was tense and musical and I liked it.

Had no knowledge or expectations going into this one, just wanting to read more recently released verse novels and it came up in the trusty library catalog subject heading browse: Novels in verse

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams

Read aloud with my son at bedtime some nights. We both really enjoyed it; hope for more with these characters and/or in this world.

Previously read this myself a couple years ago - one of my favorites of recent years. Disappointed that I never actually wrote a review of this back then.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: A Snake Falls to Earth

Read this back to front, basically two times, then started looking up the websites and other poems and writings of many of the poets here.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: booktitle

Stopped after the 1912 stories and “The Stoker” because I meant to jump over to Amerika next, but then I read other things and continue to want to read other things. I do intend to still come back to this, though. I should put entries for the individual first edition published pieces I did read so at least it they come up on my reading log gallery…

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2024-07-04 :

Finally starting a deep dive back into Kafka. Intend to read most of his works in roughly the order they were written, so I’m reading the 1912-1913 works in this anthology and then I will jump out of this to read Amerika, then probably jump back into this, then read The Trial, possibly unpublished stuff like Investigations of a Dog, and so forth. Kafka stories blew my mind when I was in high school; we’ll see what happens as a 44 year old.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Undeniable, probably book of the year. I have thoughts that I should articulate better, if I get brave.

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Louder Than Hunger

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Ultraviolet

I’ve been reading this with my son - a reread for both of us, as I read it to him years ago. We finished it last night and were surprised; what we remembered as the final scenes of this book must actually be the opening scenes of The Wild Robot Escapes. Very nice flow from one book to the next, I guess? We will be moving on to the next book.

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2024-07-25:

Continuing to read this at bedtime with my son, every other night or so.

2024-07-10 :

Started reading The Wild Robot with Will tonight.

We started reading Sheine Lende the night before last but it was making Will feel quite anxious and so wasn’t a good bedtime read.

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• I really hyped this book back in 2016 on Granite Media. The review is still there, and I still stand behind it: The Wild Robot – Granite Media

Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Wild Robot