Nolan Can Read

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October 22, 2024

The Waves

By Virginia Woolf

A perfect novel, making the second perfect novel I have read, after Ulysses. I could maybe write more, but what is the point of writing, when it already has been done, perfectly?

October 18, 2024

Stiff

By Mary Roach

Lots of fun, lots of corpses but a bit a lark, a bit of a laugh.

August 29, 2024

Babel

By R.F. Kuang

There is a bit here of the young-adult, which of course is nothing to be ashamed of, but means that it is a bit simplistic, a bit stilted, and a bit preoccupied by its own project. Which like, it’s a...

August 24, 2024

Demon Copperhead

By Barbara Kingsolver

Good, sweet story, a bit trite and maybe a bit patronizing, but mostly empathetic, well put-together and a good modern Dickens.