Just finished book 1 earlier this year, looking forward to getting to the rest of them.

I was looking for McCarthy ITT. I'm going to read Blood Meridian this year after listening to the audiobook years ago. I read The Road around the same time and struggled to get through it because it was so absolutely dreary. I get it obviously I just wanted to say that.

I would recommend also No Country For Old Men as I thought it was all the things McCarthy is amazing at but isn't so violent as the Judge's gang or as consistently hopeless as the world of The Road. It's paced like a thriller while still having an amazing villain. Talking about CM makes me think I should reread these books. I was just out of college when I read/listened to them.

thank you!

"Nobody Is Talking About This" - Patricia Lockwood. Booker shortlist. It's the experience of an online "celebritry" liberal white woman over a few years. Covid, "the dictator", etc. It's written in pithy disjointed paragraphs kind of like the author is tweeting it. Then a serious matter with the author's sister and it's become a little meditation on that. It's pretty.

"Salvation: Black People and Love" - bell hooks. I've seen ms. hooks justifiably criticized on here but I thought I'd see for myself. I read lots of poc authors for February and this is wrapping that up. I don't have a ton of thoughts on this book, I don't think I am the target audience as a melanin-freefolk but it is interesting for the perspective. I had to finish Rashid Khalidi's history of the war on Palestine as my nonfiction first.

I also have a bookmark in a collection of Maya Angelou's poems that I've been neglecting. Trying to keep a balanced reading load with a fiction, a nonfiction, and a poetry collection this year. And I've got some beginner's theory opened in a couple of tabs that I've been chipping away at.

I finished a book this morning! Washington Black - Esi Edugyan. Would recommend, gonna look for more from her.

And I have like 20 pages in another one i've been trying to finish for months now (The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance - Rashid Khalidi) that I want to finish by today. I'm annoyed at how long it's taken me already.

been reading a lot in my period of unemployment