Best Books of 2016 – Jeff’s Picks
What a fantastic year of books – it’s quite difficult to narrow it down to a top few. I hate to exclude Don DeLillo’s Zero K, and Adam Haslett’s Imagine Me Gone, but there can only be...
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Float by Anne Carson
★★★★★ Let’s consider floating a transitional state, stuck between flying and falling. It’s the top of an arc, a beautiful moment of momentary weightlessness before crashing back to earth. Mathematically speaking, there’s a brief...
October 2016: Books to Read and Review
This month I took a turn through the 2016 Man Booker Prize shortlist, with reviews on Run Spot Run of Graeme Macrae Burnet’s fantastic His Bloody Project and David Szalay’s All That Man Is. The prize...
