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Wants to read Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Wants to read Gun, With Occasional Music

Rated Hamlet 10/10

Wants to read Lives of the Saints

Rated Ways to Disappear 6/10

Slight but pretty, and a quick read. A Brazilian writer runs off, and her family and her American translator try to find her. It's clear that this is a first novel, and one written by a poet - it's gorgeously written, a little half-baked, dotted here and there with formal experimentation.

Finished reading Hyperion

Finished reading Ilium

Wants to read The Power

Rated The Assistants 8/10

A delightful caper, fast and engaging, about the underpaid assistant to a powerful media CEO who falls into a con scheme.

Rated Belles on Their Toes 8/10

Wants to read Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate and Fabulously Eccentric Women

Wants to read I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman

Wants to read Elizabeth Taylor a Life in Pictures

Finished reading Project Hail Mary

Rated Speedboat 8/10

Odd and haunting series of vignettes about a reporter, her social circle, New York and the 1970s. Doesn’t really pull together into a plot but it’s worth the trip. Reminds me of Lydia Davis or Donald Barthelme.

Rated Lincoln in the Bardo 10/10

This is an amazing feat of a book made all the better by the exceptionally well-done audiobook, which is how I read it. This might be the best book I've read so far this year.

Rated Ender’s Game 4/10

Rated Somewhere Beyond the Sea 8/10

Wants to read The Street

Wants to read Madonna in a Fur Coat

Wants to read Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry

Reading Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Wants to read The Magicians

Wants to read Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society

Wants to read Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel