These are the books critic magicmolly can't get out of her head this month
Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images People never believe me when I explain that I’m a slow reader. They either think I’m being modest or lying . My rate is about 12 pages per hour; I can churn through a little more if the book is pulpy. I’m able to read at a faster tempo, if by “reading” you mean “recognizing words,” but that’s not what you mean.
The Listening House is packed with vocabulary that was apparently in high fashion in 1938 and should probably make a comeback — words like rummage and burglarious and marauder. Characters are always having “coffee and a sandwich” for dinner, “quarrelling” , and threatening to spank each other with a table leg. Simpler times.
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero $18 I’ll start by quoting a devastating review of this novel that recently appeared in Publishers Weekly: “It’s a credible documentation of writer’s block and narcissism, but readers will be left wondering what purpose it serves.
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews $17 “We’re Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you’re a teenager.” Thus speaks Nomi Nickel, a 16-year-old involuntary member of a denomination that forbids her from dancing, watching movies, swimming, drinking, and staying up past nine o’clock.
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