As with all the Jackson books I've read so far, this one features some people confined in a house, strange visions, and fear of the outside world. Aunt Fanny, of the Halloran family, has had a vision that the world will soon end. That is, it will end for anyone who is not safely inside …
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
If you don't want to be uncomfortably aware of your own existence--the heat of your breath, the presence of your tongue against your teeth, the weight of your hand resting on your thigh, the stickiness of your eyes, all of this, constant and inescapable--then possibly, avoid this book. The story takes the form of a …
Dead authors
I noticed today that all my favorite authors are dead. Then I noticed that almost everything I read at all is written by someone dead. I decided to do a count, and in the past 3 years (counting back from today) I've read something like 95 books, and only 19 of them (by 16 authors) …
2020 books catch up
I've read a bunch of books this year that I haven't written about. I have fallen far behind on the blogging train, so I'll try to catch up. Though it's been weeks or months in most cases, I'll try to remember my thoughts on each of the books I've read this year that I haven't …
Agatha Christie books
I have watched hundreds of hours of mystery TV shows. I've seen every episode of the original 7 seasons of Columbo at least 4 times. Every episode of Murder She Wrote at least twice, every Episode of Poirot, Marple, Rosemary & Thyme, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Hetty Wainthrop, Death in Paradise, most of Midsummer Murders, …
Jonas David 