Category archives: read

Die schlechteste Hausfrau der Welt

by Jacinta Nandi

Eine englische Muttersprachlerin, die auf Deutsch schreibt, und eine englische Muttersprachlerin, die es liest. Immer unterhaltsam, aber deprimierender als ich erwartet hatte. In einem nachfolgenden Buch gibt es ein erstaunliches Ausmaß an Deadbeatness, das ich mir nie hätte vorstellen können, aber in dieses geht es mehr um die … Read more

Infinités

by Vandana Singh
  • “Faim” ★★★
  • “Delhi” ★★★★
  • “La femme qui se croyait planète” ★★★½
  • “Infinités” ★★★½
  • “Soif” ★★★
  • “Les lois de la conservation” ★★★
  • “Trois contes de la rivière du ciel” ★★★
  • “Le tétraèdre” ★★★½
  • “L’épouse” ★★★
  • “La chambre sur le toit” ★★★½
  • “Un manifeste spéculatif” ★★★½

Real Sugar is Hard to Find

by Sim Kern

Especially in the first half the writing is not a pleasure to read, but I appreciated the imagination.

  • “Real Sugar is Hard to Find” ★★★
  • “The Listener” ★★★½
  • “The Propagator” ★★★★
  • “The New Nomad” ★★★
  • “The Night Heron” ★★★
  • “Tadpoles” ★★
  • “Unwhole” ★★★★
  • “What Can’t Be Undone” ★★★★
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Miss Muriel and Other Stories

by Ann Petry
  • “Miss Muriel” ★★★½
  • “The New Mirror” ★★★½
  • “Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean?” ★★★½
  • “The Migraine Workers” ★★★½
  • “Mother Africa” ★★★
  • “The Bones of Louella Brown” ★★★★
  • “Olaf and His Girl Friend” ★★½
  • “Like a Winding Sheet” ★½
  • “The Witness” ★½
  • “Solo on the Drums” ★★
  • “The Necessary
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Eleven

by Patricia Highsmith

Beacons of unpleasantness

  • “The Snail-Watcher” ★★½
  • “The Birds Poised to Fly” ★★½
  • “The Terrapin” DNF
  • “When the Fleet was in at Mobile” ★★½
  • “The Quest for ‘Blank Claveringi'” ★★½
  • “The Cries of Love” ★★
  • “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” ★★
  • “The Heroine” ★★
  • “Another Bridge to Cross”
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