Still inching my way through Catherine the Great (my total count of reads is going to be waaaay down this year because of chunksters like this!) and I finished Nanni Balestrini's We Want Everything, a fictionalized account of the late-1960s labor strikes at a Fiat plant in Milan. It was interesting!
That leaves
Mrs. March, by Virginia Feito, which really is like an Ottessa Moshfegh book in depicting a complicated and unlikable protagonist with whom I am nonetheless fascinated, and
something new I will pick tonight, likely Georges Simenon's
Act of Passion, which I bought at the same time as We Want Everything, at the always-great NYC bookstore Codex. It has an introduction by no less a figure than Roger Ebert so how can you go wrong with that. Or I might pick something else. We'll see!
What are you reading?
1 comment:
Mrs. March never got rave reviews but, for me, it was a 5 star read and made my top 10 list the year I read it.
I do love Ottessa Moshfegh but, for some reason I haven't thought about reading her latest: Lapvona. Eileen, was a favorite of hers for me. Act of Passion looks like a NYRB title - I collect those so need to check it out.
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