Recent content by Chandos MD

I’m gonna be staying in Texas for the next level of education/training after medical school so I’m working through some Texas classics, most recently Larry McMurtry - In a Narrow Grave Jim Shutze - The Accommodation Billy Lee Brammer - The Gay Place John Graves - Goodbye to a River

I recently started the new English translation of Jelinek’s The Children of the Dead. I realized I’d lost the plot entirely about 100 pages in, but I didn’t have it in me to go backwards and reread, so I’m putting it down for another day Yesterday I started Voss and it took me in immediately...

January ?? Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro ??/?? Gershom Scholem - Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism ?? Émile Zola - Germinal ??Anton Chekhov - Selected Plays [Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard] ??Natsume Sōseki - Botchan ?? Rabindranath Tagore -...

Yeah the absence of a unified narrative to drive the novels forward is for sure the difference, but I don’t always lose steam reading plotless fiction like I do with Sebald so there must be something particular to him that I can’t see. I will try him again because of how much my friends love him...

Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich Mário de Andrade - Macunaíma (a new English translation published this year) Mathais Énard - Compass Thomas Bernhard - Correction (my favorite of his, but this year I also read Frost, Gargoyles, The Loser, Concrete, Wittgenstein’s Nephew, and Extinction)...

I finished the major Sebald novels this year, I liked Austerlitz but failed Vertigo and The Rings of Saturn. Halfway through both of them I started skimming out of boredom, then gave up once I noticed what I was doing. I’m not sure what I missed but I’m not interested in trying again. I had a...

?? Correction by Thomas Bernhard I’ve been reading a lot from him recently—in total, I’ve read Frost, The Loser, Correction, Woodcutters, Wittgenstein’s Nephew, and Extinction. I’m starting Gargoyles today. One theme shared by most of the novels I’ve read is schooling’s contribution to...

Not sure yet—I’m graduating from med school next Spring, I’m definitely leaving San Antonio and probably also Texas (there’s only one program I like enough to keep me here). I find out where in March What happened to them?

I found the set used + 50% off I couldn’t refuse

Not going to be fun to move cities next year with all of this in tow but I've already gotten rid of all the books I could stand getting rid of

For most of my reading life I’ve had a habit of only reading one or two books from a given author before moving on in the name of diversity, I’ve only recently started reading deeper. If you only count novels I have Faulkner and Bernhard tied at 5—if I included plays it would be Shakespeare and...

My experience was similar to Hayden's, I was very underwhelmed by The Funeral Party when I read it a few years ago, I imagined there must be something to her other novels for her to have acquired her reputation but haven't been motivated to try again since. My library has Big Green Tent and...