The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
I first started reading this book in the spring of 2007. I know that because I had several hours of hall duty while administering state-wide tests when I was working at a school in Baltimore, so I brought this book to stand and read while for the most part I didn’t have any interaction with students. Over the course of the testing, I read about 150 pages of the nearly 600 pages. 600 pages is such a relative term as well all know. 600 pages […]
The Rat by Günter Grass
An old man and the rat he received as a Christmas present become engaged in a dialogue on the future of humanity. The rat draws up visions in which mankind is wiped out in a nuclear war while the rats survive and build a new civilization. The man weaves stories, too, fairy tale characters who try to save the forest, five women who cross the Baltic Sea on a boat on which no men are allowed, the tale of a painter who is a forger, […]
Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry
The Trolley by Claude Simon
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor
The Red Collar by Jean-Christophe Rufin
The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano
Across by Peter Handke
The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass
This, and a subsequent post will collect together a bunch of small books of no particular connection together. In some case I tend to find connections among various texts I end up reading at the same time. This is a product/habit from college and grad school where I would be taking multiple classes at the same time and looked to streamline my research and explore different ways to use the same critical texts in multiple ways. But mostly I am trying to clear off shelf-space […]
