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My January 2023 Reads!
I read the first five books and I'm still in the middle of the last three. Ford's The Good Solider and Woolf's The Common Reader are both from my grad class on Modernism. We only read pieces of The Common Reader so I wanted to finish reading the whole thing since it's one of Woolf's books that I haven't read completely yet.
Strange Weather in Tokyo and Convenience Store Woman are both novellas that are translated from Japanese.
The best of the books that I finished this month was Strange Weather in Tokyo.
#your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village#maureen johnson#convenience store woman#sayaka murata#convenience store woman was interesting but focused way too much on a draining character who was basically an incel and pissed me off#the grass widow#nanci little#still not sure how I feel about the grass widow- it got very funky at the end#and hard to follow in a way that wasn't good#the good solider#ford madox ford#strange weather in tokyo#hiromi kawakami#tales of the city#armistead maupin#the common reader#virginia woolf#the trials of radclyffe hall#diana souhani#hall's life is so interesting too#japanese lit#brit lit#lesbian lit#classic lit#books#bookblr#read in 2023#most of these books were bought used and my copy of the common reader is an old library cast-off
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I didn't go online at all yesterday. I self-designated a reading day and finished a book for class (The Good Solider) and one book on my owned TBR (Convenience Store Woman). It bothered me that I didn't have any books done yet for this year. I'm in the middle of three others, with a mind to start maybe one or two more, but still, it feels like very slow going.
#all those posted were queued on Monday or something and the queue ran out so I'm back to posting in real time#I've been online way too much lately and I'm absorbing a lot of stuff I don't want to so I had to step back#also I have so many books to read#I'm even looking at thriftbooks for more books#cuz I haven't read anything very good in a while#convenience store woman was interesting but focused way too much on a draining character who was basically an incel and pissed me off#the woman was interesting but the main guy character was infuriating#I treated it as a character study of this woman and how her mind worked otherwise it wouldn't have been enjoyable at all#I liked following her but the guy was in the book too much and almost took over the story at points very obnoxious#the wlw book I'm currently reading is weird and I'm not sure how I feel about it because the characters are related (though not directly)#and no one in the reviews said anything about that either- I noticed#it's also weird because it feels like a draft not a final product...there's just a lot of jumping around that makes no sense#and Ford Madox Ford wrote an INSANE book#there was no hinged character in The Good Solider- and you could trust no one#I'm going to try to argue it's a metaphor for King Henry VIII and his six wives... because it's heavily implied that's what the story is#but rewritten so it's in the 1910s and the Catharine of Aragon character never divorces him so it gets even wilder#that's the only fucking way I'm getting any sense from that book sorry but it's too odd otherwise#books#bookblr#mychatter#grad school
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