#2023 February Update Reading List

February:   

1. Floaters –  Martin Espada  – (Nat Book Award 2021) poetry
2. Updike – A. Begley (NF) – REVIEW
3. Darkness at Noon – A. Koestler (Modern Library) – REVIEW
4. Hong Kong Et Macao – J. Kessel   (NF) (French) (Hong Kong) – REVIEW
5. Les Fourberies de Scapin (play) – Molière
6. Journal d’un curé de campagne- Georges Bernanos – REVIEW
7. My Fourth Time, We Drowned – Sally Hayden (NF) – READING

 

Black History Month (#BHM)…reading as many as I can!

1. Do Not Disturb  – M. Wrong (Rwanda) (NF)
2. De Doorsons – Roline Redmond (Dutch book)  – REVIEW
3. Love Songs W.E. Du Bois – Honorée  F. Jeffers – REVIEW
4. The Age of Phillis – H. F. Jeffers (poet’s life through poems) – REVIEW
5. On Becoming an American Writer – J. McPherson  (essays) – REVIEW
6. Punch Me Up to the Gods (memoir) – Brian Broome – REVIEW
7. Halfway Home –  R.J. Miller (NF)  – REVIEW – LA Times Prize 2022 finalist
8. A Knock At Midnight – Brittany K. Barnett (NF)  – REVIEW

 

SHORT STORY:   Stories from The New Yorker 2023  

1. The Other Party – M. Klam   – excellent
2. Notions of the Sacred – A. Savas  – excellent
3. Hammer Attack – Han Ong  – good
4. Wednesday’s Child – Yiyun Li – too depressing
5. Different People – C. Sestanocivh – no conflict…just dishwater grey!
6. The Middle Voice – H. Kang  – main character has no voice…story has no plot.
7. Sad Dead – Mariana Enriquez – TOP!!  Who is this writer?…from Buenos Aires (1973)

 

FILMS:  Black History Month 

1. In this list I would like to highlight
2. …some directors….currently making movies about racism .
3. I started watching these movies in January…
4. Film List:  Black History Month 
5. In this list I would like to highlight
6. …some directors….currently making movies about racism.

 

1. Raoul Peck: I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
2. Done – Ava DuVerbay: Selma (2015)
3.  – IMPRESSIVE
4. Ava DuVerbay:  When They See Us (2019) – mini series 4 episodes....
5. Steve McQueen : 12 Years as a Slave (2013)
6. Barry Jenkins: If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
7. Done – Barry Jenkins:  Moonlight (2016)- GOOD
8. Dee Rees: Mudbound (2017)
9. Done – Jordan Peele: Get Out (2017)
10. – Not a good movie…it wasn’t funny, wasn’t scary or wasn’t clever.
11. Alan Parker: Mississippi Burning (1988)…(favourite movie)
12. Chinonye Chukwu: Till (2022) not available on streaming yet 
13. Done – Peter Farrelly – Green Book (2018)
14. – How did this film even get considered for an Oscar?…it was just oké.
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