Once again happy new year to all but particularly the Alzabo Soup podcast for their monthly book club read-along, which I dipped in and out of this year. The Bloody Chamber was on their schedule, which spurred me to revisit a few of Angela Carter's greatest hits, as well as read Edmond Gordon's excellent biography. Suldrun's Garden was another of their selections – which I liked so much I got through the entire Lyonesse trilogy, and Jack Vance's autobiography, in a month. The deaths of Tom Stoppard and Peter David also exerted an influence. The biggest revelation was Garth Greenwell, who writes about his experience of living in Bulgaria with great insight and feeling. Capsule reviews for most of the below are on Goodreads.
Non-fiction
Edmund Gordon - The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
Jack Vance - This is me, Jack Vance!: Or, More Properly, This Is "I"
Michael Moorcock - Wizardry and Wild Romance
Samuel R. Delany - The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Martin Amis - The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
Jonathan Bate - The Genius of Shakespeare
Peter Heather - Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300-1300
Chris DeVille - Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
Chris Payne - Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
Ivan Krastev / Stephen Holmes - The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
Majorie Garber - Shakespeare After All
Fiction
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber and other stories
Angela Carter - Wise Children
Angela Carter - The Passion of New Eve
Garth Greenwell - What Belongs To You / Cleanness
Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour: stories
William Gibson - Neuromancer / Count Zero
Jack Vance - Suldrun's Garden / The Green Pearl / Madouc
Michael Swanwick - Stations of the Tide
John M. Ford - The Dragon Waiting
John M. Ford - The Last Hot Time
Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny - various short stories
Tom Stoppard - Arcadia
Tom Stoppard - The Real Thing
John Marston - The Malcontent
Thomas Dekker / Thomas Middleton - The Roaring Girl
Eimear McBride - The Lesser Bohemians
Philip Roth - Sabbath's Theatre
Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge
Alissa Nutting - Tampa
Marguerite Duras - The Malady of Death
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen / Moonlight Shadow
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Annie Ernaux - Simple Passion
Leo Tolstoy - Hadji Murat
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
Clark Ashton Smith (ed. S.T. Joshi) - The Dark Eidolon and other fantasies
Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart
Pierre Louÿs - Three Daughters of their Mother
Pierre Louÿs - Toinon
Guillaume Apollinaire - The Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell
Alina Reyes - The Butcher
Alfred de Musset - Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess
Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
Comics:
Bruce Timm - Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm
Peter David / George Pérez - Sachs & Violens
Peter David / J.K. Woodward - Fallen Angel
Kenichi Sonoda - Gunsmith Cats omnibus vol. 1
Mirka Andolfo - Sweet Paprika vol. 1
Takaya Kagami / Yamato Yamamoto - Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign vol. 1
Shirow Miwa - RWBY: 1
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