I like #LeeMiller's photographs a lot. I was hoping to discover more about her from this, but I found it more speculative than grounded in evidence and, despite being written by three women who were aiming to position Miller as a key player in #BritishSurrealism, spent too much time talking about the men historically at the forefront of the movement.

https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/lee-miller-and-surrealism-in-britain/

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What I read in 2022

I managed (more or less) 60 books last year. More or less because I had 10 pages left of my last read of the year as the calendar clicked over.

I had 16 five star reads. My favourites of these were #Villager by #TomCox, #ThirstySea by #EricaMou, #MuscleAndMouth by #LouiseFinnigan, #BreastsAndEggs by #MiekoKawakami, and the #ShortStory collection #TheBookOfRamallah from #CommaPress.

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My last read for #NovellasInNovember - I didn't quite finish it in November because it demanded slow reading and reflection of me.

The Sense of an Ending is a story about the paradoxes of existence, the unreliability of memory and the way we curate our memories to tell a manipulated version of the story of our lives.

It's utterly brilliant.

https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/12/03/the-sense-of-an-ending/

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A Very Normal Man tells the curious tale of Giovanni Vivaldi, a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, working towards his own retirement when a swift and shocking tragedy occurs.

The tragedy leads to a moment of decision that takes an unexpected turn, with Giovanni taking a brutal revenge on the perpetrator of the tragedy.

I loved it.

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https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/11/20/a-very-normal-man/

My first review link on here. My first Philip Roth.

Full of dense description, with every character an individual not a type, it examines who we are, who we pretend to be, and what happens when trauma shatters our idea of ourselves.

https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/american-pastoral/

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