- Charles Burns, Final Cut. Appreciate it. Leaves you with fleeting emotion. Cinema and meta pretty nice.
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Things really do go rather badly for Okonkwo.
- Javier Marias, Todas las Almas. Gave up 1/2 way through. Just going nowhere.
- James Hilton, Lost Horizon. So male-oriented it’s kind of funny. But the framing story writing is great. The philosophy is so undergraduate though.
- H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness. Started skimming at some point. A lot- a lot!- of description. Great pairing with Lost Horizon.
- Gene Wolfe, Soldier of the Mist. Greek soldier has amnesia every morning on waking, and sees some of the gods. Lots of stories. A peculiar style. Very akin to Ishiguro’s (later) Buried Giant. If you like your fiction obtuse (in the sense of indirect)… by design… this is a master class.
- Adam Johnson, The Wayfinder. Have read about 500 pages… tremendous. But all of a sudden, I don’t want to read the last 200 pages and ending. I’d rather have the story continue in my head.
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. So enjoyable to read and discuss with friends.
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. So enjoyable to read and discuss with friends.
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Tiempos Recios. The story of the 1951 coup in Guatemala. Gripping story, straightforward read.
Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Sortie d’animation au Centre de Lecture et d’Études de Béréba (CLEB)
- Compte rendu d’une sortie de l’animateur à la bibliothèque de Boni
- Some photos from Nyariga community library in June
- Échange avec un nouveau lecteur de la bibliothèque de Boni
- Gowrie Kunkua community library during the night session
- Encadrement du gérant de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Sumbrungu Community Library, mid June
- A class came to read at Sherigu library in June, with their science teacher
- Compte rendu d’animation à la bibliothèque de Dohoun
- Une journée d’animation dynamique à la bibliothèque de Koho
Michael Kevane 