0578 | The Recognitions | William Gaddis
The literary critic jack green is probably best known for insisting that his pseudonym be written, like adidas, without capital letters. He’s arguably less well known for lambasting those critics…
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0559 | The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes | Anonymous
What better way to follow a weighty picaresque novel that was incredibly influential with a very light one that is credited with inventing the genre itself. Someone, and we have…
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0507 | Amadis of Gaul | Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo
If you’re a bloke, you’ve got five choices: king, knight, wizard, giant or dwarf. If you’re a woman, you’ve got two: queen or damsel. There aren’t any normal people in this…
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0331 | Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert Maturin
Context: Our gardener planted a ton of corn for us while I was reading this. It came up in hours, not days… not really but it seemed like it. REVIEW…
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0269 | In Europe – Geert Mak
Context: Finally finished this off at our friends’ lovely house in Beamish, County Durham. REVIEW This was an amazing book and I can’t think why it isn’t better known. For…
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0255 | Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Context: Read this as we visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Inside there was a statue commissioned by Hadrian of his lover, Antinous. Unfortunately, they wouldn’t let me take a…
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0225 | Marks of Identity – Juan Goytisolo
Context: Had to break out the hot water bottle on more than one occasion while reading this. It’s getting cold here. REVIEW Now the 1001 Books list has its critics….
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0146 | Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Context: listened to this while I worked in the kitchens at Wycliffe. REVIEW This is a loooong book and I listened to it over about three weeks on my mp3…