en-US Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:49:37 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9519120113 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:49:37 -0700 /review/show/7635020911 Zach is currently reading The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White
]]> Review7635014466 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:49:09 -0700 /review/show/7635014466 Zach gave 4 stars to Summer and Smoke (Mass Market Paperback) by Tennessee Williams
read in one sitting after midnight. a minor williams work and nonetheless teeming with our most profound and destructive qualities on full display. a play about the tension between the contents of our bodies and the contents of our soul, how to reconcile them and produce that elusive thing of love. loved it ]]> ReadStatus9514246635 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:22:38 -0700 /review/show/7631630663 Zach wants to read Notebooks by Tennessee Williams
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]]> Review7535693621 Sun, 01 Jun 2025 02:35:10 -0700 /review/show/7535693621 Zach gave 4 stars to The Passenger (The Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy
my goodness, what a book! i haven't read McCarthy since The Road and was at first quite put off, but this byzantine, exquisite labyrinth of disparate philosophy and elegy managed to baffle, upset and move me time and time again. a novel this expansive is hard to summarize, every angle of western masculinity, class identity, mortal dread and americana not only trafficked in but shot though, killed. staged in restaurants and bars, frigid rooms with snow visible beyond the window. civilization is coming to an end (as all things are inevitable to do) and the godless void of an athiest life leaves these anguished characters in an existentialist daze of turgid woe. very depressing. amongst the many stray threads of mystery featuring plane crashes and disappearing violins, it turns out Oblivion Itself is the antagonist of the novel: it takes the form of the IRS, the American government, alcohol, incest and longing. i will definitely revisit some time in the future. a beautiful and haunting work of auteur fiction we may never see the likes of again in contemporary letters ]]> ReadStatus9489660131 Fri, 30 May 2025 23:28:32 -0700 /review/show/7614347033 Zach wants to read The Lime Twig by John Hawkes
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]]> Review7549085507 Tue, 06 May 2025 18:15:54 -0700 /review/show/7549085507 Zach has read This Is Me (Hardcover) by Katie Price
easily the most shrill and frantic celebrity memoir i've ever read. untethered from reality, muddy with speech, blathering and defensive. it's a unique experience if nothing else! i read this to learn more about katie price in advance of a podcast episode and was absolutely horrified to find this to be some kind of gothic novel about debt collectors, bankruptcy, banal drug use, dead animals and plastic surgery. really a whirlwind. can't recommend it, but glad i read it. ]]>