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Alex’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Alex’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alex Kudera
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Born
Philadelphia, The United States
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Ha Jin, Bharati Mukherjee, Don DeLillo, Frederick Exley, Thomas Pyncho
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October 2010
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Fight for Your Long Day
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2010
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Auggie's Revenge
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Frade Killed Ellen
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2015
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The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity
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2011
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3 editions
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Turquoise Truck
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2015
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I'm on page 24.I'm on page 113--an accessible four-star memoir.
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page 46 or so, the titular novella is the shortest or second shortest of three . . . the other two titles are for the ages . . . either that or the whole thing is just a bit too corny.
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I'm on page 24. I'm on page 113--an accessible four-star memoir. 12/6/25--page 142 ...more |
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| I may adjust the four-star rating, but seventy-five pages in, the Lee Wong has the feel of four stars. The narrator speaks in such "woke" cliches, I remain unsure of where R.L.W. is going with that, although I'm pretty sure I know where I'd be going. ...more | |
"I realized there aren’t many books realistically depicting lives of marginalized working poor women and girls in Japanese novels. I thought of OUT as I was reading this, there are similarities, marginalized female population usually hidden from the s"
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is 5% done with Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: I know, it’s crazy, but listening to it again because I really need to understand the tone and details for my upcoming project.
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| I may adjust the four-star rating, but seventy-five pages in, the Lee Wong has the feel of four stars. The narrator speaks in such "woke" cliches, I remain unsure of where R.L.W. is going with that, although I'm pretty sure I know where I'd be going. ...more | |
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| I finished the longer of the two novels--a novel of about 335 pages and a novella of about 120, I think--and highly recommend it. The book includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at times, of the prose we see in early Pynchon, some Barth, ...more | |
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| I'm pretty sure I read this in 2017 and just finished it again this morning. I can see why some consider The Suicide to be SaFranko's best published novel, although I might go with Hating Olivia or Nowhere Near Hollywood. ...more | |
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| I finished the longer of the two novels--a novel of about 335 pages and a novella of about 120, I think--and highly recommend it. The book includes extraordinary sentences very reminiscent, at times, of the prose we see in early Pynchon, some Barth, ...more | |
“Save for the fit of bizarre laughter at the end, the man seems so calm, sensible, rational. Duffy wishes he met more like him. A bit paranoid about this terrorism business, but frankly, he might be right. You never know who is around the bend to blow you up, destroy your symbols, set your embassy on fire, shit on your toilet seat, or send anthrax swimming into the subway air and into everyone's lungs.”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“I'd attended a selective liberal arts college, trained at respectable research institutions, and even completed a dissertation for a doctoral degree. In our shared office, I'd tell new hires I was ABD, so they wouldn't feel their own situation was so bleak. If they saw a ten-year veteran adjunct with a PhD, they might lose hope of securing a permanent job. It was the least I could do, as a good American, to remind the young we were an innocent and optimistic country where everyone was entitled to a fulfilling career. To make sure they understood that PhD stood not for "piled higher and deeper" or "Pop has dough," but in fact the degree meant "professional happiness desired," and at the altruistic colleges of democratic America only the angry or sad ones need not apply.”
― Auggie's Revenge
― Auggie's Revenge
“And so his royal Duffleleupagus is seized with the megalomaniacal conceit that he is the contemporary Jesus, the man wandering through the lives of these forlorn people, beaten and broken down by the unbearable thirst of relative deprivation--unless it was all of capitalism, or terrorism, or loneliness, or time. Of course, to compare oneself to Jesus is at least ridiculous, and yet not uninspired extreme narcissism, and although he cannot remember reading it symptomatic of a particularly overt form of latent homosexuality, he could not say for sure he had not read that either. On a cereal box top or as fortune cookie filler? Svevo or Zizek? Soft-core porn spam or in freshman composition?”
― Fight for Your Long Day
― Fight for Your Long Day
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.”
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
― Mickelsson's Ghosts
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