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“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and -just read it already it’s a great goddamn novel, ok?

By seanvansickel September 25, 2015Reading Journal

One of my favorite novels of the year, this book does very many things extremely well. It’s one of the best examples of free indirect narrations I’ve ever come across,…

Reading Log: Joan Didion’s ‘Play it as it Lays’

By seanvansickel April 14, 2015Reading Journal

Damn. This isn’t a very long book, but it really deserves you taking your time with it. On the face of it, this seems like I book I would absolutely…

Reading Log: Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There

By seanvansickel March 4, 2015Reading Journal

My girlfriend picked this up, read it in a day or two, then passed it on to me. I’d never heard of it (or seen the Academy Award-winning movie) and…

(Aborted) Reading Log: Gone Girl and Why I Need to Give Up on Reading Books That David Fincher Makes Into Movies.

By seanvansickel January 26, 2015Uncategorized

I gave up eighty pages in and skimmed the rest for plot (I always try to make it at least 50 pages in good faith with any novel-length reading endeavor).…