Read a lot of Bolaño this past month. Super fun!

El espíritu de la ciencia-ficción / Roberto Bolaño (stopped after awhile)


Nocturno de Chile / Roberto Bolaño (When he goes to the house at the end where they used to have the literary conversations, and it was a torture house… wow.)


The death of Vivek Oji / Akwaeke Emezi (stopped after awhile)


Tremor : a novel / Teju Cole (read whole thing but really did not like… seemed very lazy writing- I mean, inserting what seemed to be an art lecture talk “he” gave? I appreciated Pnin’s lecture more.)

Distant star / Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. (Yasss! He seemed to mine the same vein in his novels… so interesting to see the variations.)


The Snow Queen / Joan Vinge (It won the Hugo? It was tediously endless.)

Llamadas telefonicas / Roberto Bolaño (The story about him in Spain corresponding and then meeting the older poet and talking about submitting to literary contests was very good.)

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