🚨Book thread 2020🚨
Book 1 - Essays on life, art and especially place - Hastrich writes beautifully about the little patch of water she knows and loves and on the power of paying attention.
Book 2 - this is as good as everyone says: on the internet, on the way capitalism coopts everything, on self-involvement and how we live now. It's refreshing to read critical essays about the internet by someone who properly understands being Online.
Book 3 - a memoir of 6 months living in a cabin by Lake Baikal - pretentious, hilarious, beautiful and a bit infuriating. An incredible experience.
Book 4 - the stream-of-consciousness approach and the narrator's endless digressions will put a lot of people off, but this is evocative and fascinating. Burns captures the oppressive surveillance of a community at war, the way things seem to happen inevitability and more.
Not sure I've quite captured what's so good about this. If you're interested in the troubles in NI and can handle something a bit alienating style-wise, this is highly, highly recommended.
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