Occasionally this year I wrote Goodreads reviews that were less of a formality and had a bit more substance. There’s only a few (The Voices of Marrakesh, East of Eden, Into the Wild, Lolly Willowes) so I’ve linked them here. You can read some brief thoughts on the first half of the year’s reading (1-14) here.
For next year, I plan to write a thoughtful review for most books I read and publish them here and on Goodreads. It feels right to actually take some time to reflect on themes and ideas and how a story affects me. I might do it for movies too 🙂
- The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Everyday Aesthetics by Yuriko Saito
- A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
- Pebble Island by Jon McNaught
- The People of Hemso by August Strindberg
- Gigi and the Cat by Colette
- Words are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Brief History of the Czech Lands by Petr Cornej and Jiri Pokorny
- B. Proudew by Irena Douskova
- Daughters by Lucy Fricke
- A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
- Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
- No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds by Elif Shafak
- The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Whale Rider by Witi Imihaera
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Pastoralia by George Saunders
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Into the Wild by John Krakauer
- Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner