Books I Read April 11, 2021
Turns out cold weather and quarantine are good for reading. To whit...
How to Fall: Stories by Edith Pearlman – A collection of short stories mostly of the subtle observations of bourgeois life vein. I tend to struggle a bit with that kind of thing but by the end Ms. Pearlman had me a believer.
The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen – A young writer's induction into a prestigious, secretive, literary society run by an eccentric, monstrous, possibly magical children's author leads to some supernatural shenanigans, clever insight into the essentially parasitical nature of fiction. I dug it.
By Night Under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz – Still fucking amazing.
Barcelona Shadows by Marc Pastor – Death itself narrates this story of a Maigret-like detective on the trail of a child murdering possible vampire. Nothing really wrong with this except that I find books about child killing aggressively tedious. I recognize the irony given that I wrote one, but still.
