Books Read 11.15.09 - 11.15.10

Submitted by Slothrop33 on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 10:48
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  1. Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts- Donald Barthelme
  2. Mayflower- Nathaniel Philbrick (terrific book!)
  3. The Shipwrecked Men- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1530, spanish exploration of southeast usa)
  4. America As Seen By Its Explorers- John Bakeless
  5. Distant Star- Roberto Bolaño (Chilean, amazing, my first by him)
  6. Little Man, What Now?- Hans Fallada (German, quite good, a bit Kafkaesque in its economically controlled humor)
  7. Borges and the Eternal Orangutans- Luis Fernando Verissimo (Argentine)
  8. What We Were and Where We Were Going- Damion Searls
  9. The Country Where No One Ever Dies- Ornela Vorpsi (Albanian)
  10. School For Love- Olivia Manning
  11. An Episdoe in the Life of a Landscape Painter- Cesar Aira (Argentine)
  12. Homage to Czerny: Studies in Virtuoso Technique- Gert Jonke (austrian, if you love obsessive writerslike calvino or nicholson baker then you will love jonke)
Faustess02/13/2010

I really liked Mayflower also. :D