In Watermelon Sugar
1960s
Pale Fire
Pale Fire is a delightful escape-room of a novel, with layers of meaning, unreliablility, and puns that might seem a bit highfalutin but crucially does not take itself seriously. The conceit of a somewhat crazy man telling a story through...
Master And Commander
A bit of an odd coincidence, I did not realize when reading His Majesty’s Dragon that it was basically just Master and Commander with dragons. And to be frank, I think the dragons did improve it a bit. I mean,...
The Wretched Of The Earth
Brilliant! Thought-provoking and insightful into the forces and structures of decolonialization, and a bit challenging. The prefaces by Sartre and particularly Homi K Bhabha (sesquipedalian though it is) do an excellent job of contextualizing the rest. It is a bit...
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Mimic Men
Destination:
The Real Inspector Hound
Dreamtigers