I have been getting acquainted with the novels of the Canadian writer Andre Alexis over the past two months. His novel Pastoral is the first in a series titled Quincunx. One of the central characters is a priest who arrives in a remote village. As a young boy, he had heard a divine call—(he thought […]
David Szalay’s Flesh is a novel that tells the life of a man who lived entirely by “going with the flow.” It’s a book I read simply because I had nothing else to read — and finished it in the same spirit. As a schoolboy, the protagonist has a relationship with an older woman —
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Another week went by and I have finished another stack of books – six to be precise. You could call it a reading marathon—except I read multiple books at once, so it’s more like a slow-motion sprint across several tracks. 2025, Week 21 Books Finished six books this week, all in English. First in