Josiah Singleton > Recent Status Updates

No amount of CIA training can get past ur neurotic wife’s intuition

Starting a new Cormac McCarthy is a Christmas tradition for me atp

Everything Demus says is acc a bar… shame that was one of the shorter chapters. Part 1 finished

This shit brutal… literally is Blood Meridian but Jamaican (like even down to the lack of speech marks)

A great read so far but in the “humanitarian revolution” section I think there’s too much emphasis on a history of ideas and human agency- not the more mechanistic explanations I’d expect from Pinker

Some guy got fucked in the mouth at gunpoint in front of his son first chapter?!? Ts the Caribbean version of Blood Meridian… I love The Caribbean and I love Blood Meridian

Literally got this in some surprise package at the KCLSU and it acc has just about everything I like including ghost characters and ofc CIA conspiracies

Can’t wait to finish this so I can read suttin I acc like

Cool story Tarrou… but why do I need to hear about ur Daddy issues?

Okay getting better, good use of the priest and absurdist themes (only took 3 quarters of a wishy washy novel to get here kmt)- also acc further ahead, this update just never saved

Doing a quick Sparknotes on who the characters are (cuz I can’t keep up) has made all the difference… obvs at the cost of me spoiling who the mystery narrator is

Good ol’ fashioned “stethoscope to eavesdrop a conversation through the wall” trick

Great narrative account of superstitious violence in this chapter, great use of death rate per capita… but why’s there not a “per year” figure as well Steve?!?

Can’t tell if this book’s hard to follow, or if I couldn’t concentrate over the babbling of some little shit toddler on the train… still some beautiful passages tho

Another quick read to reach the reading goal… also I love noir so much and may acc write my own again like I did when I was 15

Nakata and Hoshino 🫂goated fictional friendship

Also is Kafka in purgatory tf????

Just had an epic crossover putting Marvel to shame and the step-sister porn version of Inception…mad

Technically read the first fifth of this book time ago but somehow remembered it so just picking up where I left off

Hoshino’s so real man

Only Murakami can make me sad about a nonce slowly dying (who for some reason is a rly sweet sympathetic character… fuckin hell man)

Learned how advertisers prefer publications w affluent readership, hence allowing papers catering to elite opinion to out-compete more critical papers that would otherwise do very well… sad

In today’s book club sesh, I learned literal child abuse is okay as long as he’s potentially possessed by the ghost of your former lover 👍

Annnnnd back to the porn

A Pimp Named Sanders… I fucking love this book

Kinda depressing having to read this (which is kinda full of itself and difficult to follow) while rly enjoying the Murakami book I’m reading

No step-sis porn or cat dismemberment for a while now, just some of the most beautiful whimsical literature I’ve read. I think I’m in the clear chat 🤡

Just realised I love all the characters in this (also can’t pour Johnnie Walker when working on bar w/o shuddering now)