anthony powell – Cannonball Read 17

End of year 2

The Chamber by John Grisham

The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes

The Theater and its Double by Antonin Artaud

Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell

Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell

Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell

December 25, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Dance to the Music of Time Vol 4 – 4/5 Books Do Furnish a Room This is the 10th (10th!!) book in the series and after the foray in the war, we’re right back where we started: discussing marriages and books in the UK. Specifically, we’re looking into the post-war publishing industry and discussing the state of literature now in 1945 or so. So where are? Well the Moderns (sic) have hung it up and we’ve moved into some other kind of thing that can’t […]

Et al

To Hold up the Sky by Cixin Liu

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry

Dance to the Music of Time: The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell

Dance to the Music of Time: The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell

Dance to the Music of Time: The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

December 9, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

To Hold up the Sky – 3/5 I really like the Cixin Liu novels I’ve read, and have felt that the short story collections are a mixed bag. The issue tends to be a lack of closing confidence. There’s also some cool premises, and some interesting premises explored in strange ways. The opening story “The Village Teacher” splits the narrative between a simple country teacher and an intergalactic war, and the way in which these get resolved is really interesting. Another story takes a huge […]

Dance to the Music of Time Second Movement – Anthony Powell (1962)

At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant by Anthony Powell

The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell

December 29, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Again this book, like the previous one, necessitates the question of whether to treat this as a “roman fleueve” or to take the books individually in terms of independent of one another. I am writing this review as a kind of liveblog and we will see what difference or effect it creates. My plan is also to read a book in between each of the sections as well, which should also create a more concrete break too. Book 4: At Lady Molly’s — Like a […]

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

December 18, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So I don’t have a strong association with this collection of novels outside of the fact that they appear on the MLA’s Top 100 Novels (in English) from about 20 years ago. This list has sort of always been in the back of my mind as I figure out what to read. But, it’s 12 novels, which is a lot to commit to. I decided to use an Audible credit at some point to buy the first three collected as “First Movement” and these are […]

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