helen dewitt – Cannonball Read 17

I only finished it because I hate giving up

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

July 10, 2019 by lowercasesee 2 Comments

Insult to injury, I can’t find a bingo category for this one. Anyway. The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt. Apparently first published in 2000, I guess it started popping up again recently because it was put back into print. The gist is that it sent me running for the Cannonball FAQs to see at what point I could throw in the towel, but then it started to be a little less insufferable so I finished it. Not a good enough reason, as it turns out. I […]

Perhaps I should stop seeing myself as an individual and start identifying myself with the totality, but I just can’t do that.

July 1, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Faster I Walk….. 3/5 Stars I picked this one up because it was short and in the new books section of the library and I like little Scandinavian books, and this one was an odd and curious little gem of a book. The story here is about a woman living with a man and sort of trying to figure out who she is in the world. She’s closed off emotionally, she reads a lot, she thinks about death a lot, and she makes little […]

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