from earlier in the year:
- blood matters, masha gessen
- perfect rigour, masha gessen
- papa hemingway, a.e. hotchner
very interesting! a look into the man himself. as i may have said before i don't particularly care that hemingway doesn't particularly have a great reputation, though i wish he weren't faintly/obviously anti-semitic in the sun also rises. what a life to lead!
- the sound and the fury, william faulkner
my first faulkner novel, very good. i regret not writing this review earlier because i have somewhat forgotten it. i feel like it was the prototype for others' subsequent novels set in the south who turned these complex characters into stock stereotypes.
- the sportswriter, richard ford
i actually read independence day (the 'sequel') a few years ago and didn't love it, but then i read this properly word for word and really liked it.
- best american short stories, 2011, ed. geraldine brooks
some good, some just ok. this is why i love the library.
- green hills of africa, ernest hemingway
while it's easy to get sucked into any one of hemingway's passions via his writing, i felt that this was less accessible and inspiring of violence than his writing about bullfighting. i would have liked more technical explanation and how he did his tracking and shooting.
- the emperor of scent, chandler burr
having read luca turin's own book on the science of scent it was interesting to read about the man himself and the background surrounding his research, and more importantly the politics and negative reception one gets for crashing a science party with a new theory. it makes me want to look up how the vibration theory is going now that there has been so much publicity about it.
- the perfect scent, chandler burr
so it seems i have been on a perfume kick. but smells are important to me. this one focused on the development behind sarah jessica parker's perfume lines, and also the process of hermes' first in-house development of perfume. so much money.
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