The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald To be clear, it’s about one set of people, not two: people… Read more The Beautiful and Damned
Category: Book Diary
I read a lot. Mostly fiction. I love literature. I try to read the best. Classics more than popular bestsellers. I like the way one novel will lead me to the next, how, (in the way of all great art) novels will reference other novels, or at least make me think of others. Since July 2020 I’ve made it a practice to write a post about every book I read. If you’d like to see if I’ve read a particular book, click on the Reading List for an alphabetical list by author’s last name.
Ficciones
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges I had finished This Side of Paradise and The Kingdom of Sand and wanted to… Read more Ficciones
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald This is Fitzgerald’s first novel, and it shows. Hugely popular when it… Read more This Side of Paradise
The Kingdom of Sand
The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran After I read Dancer From the Dance a few months ago and posted… Read more The Kingdom of Sand
Post Office
Post Office by Charles Bukowski After I graduated from Cal Arts in 1985, I worked for a few years at… Read more Post Office
Selected Poems
Selected Poems, T. S. Eliot This is another book I found in a bookcase at Jim’s parent’s house and brought… Read more Selected Poems
Treasure Island
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson When Jim and I were in Mexico last December, visiting his mother after his… Read more Treasure Island
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Boy, this was not what I expected. I had thought that the story of Heathcliff… Read more Wuthering Heights
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James I’ve been on something of a Henry James kick for the last… Read more The Wings of the Dove
Dancer from the Dance
Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran This is a classic gay novel from 1978 that I had never read.… Read more Dancer from the Dance