12 favorite books, currently

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  • STONER (John Williams, 1965)

  • THE BLACK DAHLIA (James Ellroy, 1995)

  • RED HARVEST (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)

  • WAR AND PEACE (Leo Tolstoy, 1869)

  • THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (Ursula K Le Guin, 1969)

  • MIDDLEMARCH (George Eliot, 1872)

  • FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley, 1818)

  • THE BODY ARTIST (Don DeLillo, 2001)

  • BLINDNESS (José Saramago, 1995)

  • SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Ray Bradbury, 1962)

  • KINDRED (Octavia Butler, 1979)

  • THE MEMORY POLICE (Yoko Ogawa, 1994)

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  • READING :: BLINDNESS, by José Saramago

  • LISTENING :: I'm woefully out of the loop; need to dig for new stuff – though I've been listening to a lot of Sonic Youth and The Pixies.

  • WATCHING :: DUSTER, s1 (Max)... SEVERANCE, s2... a low dose of narrative series as it's the end of the school year and our brains can rarely handle more than a true crime doc which we've watched all the good ones.

  • PLAYING :: Wrapped up a replay of SUPERHOT last night and I'm riding 'round a post-apocalyptic Oregon killing zombies and marauders in DAYS GONE REMASTERED which is quite good save for a bug that's prevented me from clearing up one of the infestations LOOK I CAN ONLY BURN IT WHEN IT'S THERE EVEN THOUGH YOU SAY IT'S THERE BUT IT'S NOT BECAUSE I ALREADY FUCKING BURNED IT.