Not so new addiction XVII

May 1, 2022 By Alison Leslie Gold in Personal No Comments

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit

The Possessed by Elif Batuman

Letters of note: Fathers by Shaun Usher

Smoke by Ivan Turgenev (second reading)

To Be a Man (short stories) by Nicole Krauss

Medusa’s Ankles (short stories) by A. S. Byatt

English Literature (study guide) by Benjamin W. Griffin, Ph.D.

All that Man is (stories) by David Szaley

Putting the Rabbit Back in the Hat by Brian Cox

The Body by Bill Bryson

Rogue’s Gallery by Philip Hook

The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron

The Body by Bill Bryson

The Coloring Book by Colin Quinn

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 (essays) by Peter Schjeldahl

The Living Hand (essays) by Edmund Morris

Welcome Home (short essays) by Lucia Berlin

Evenings in Paradise (short stories) by Lucia Berlin

Unaccustomed Earth (short stories) by Jhumpa lahiri

Aftershocks (memoir) by Nadia Owusu

Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

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Not so new addiction – XXI

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Not so new addiction XX

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Not so new addiction XIX

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