/lit/ - Literature

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. I'm about a quarter of the way in.

Guess I'll just re-post my stuff from the earlier thread.

>Last read:
Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
I've wanted to read something of Keret's for a while, because I guess he's a big flash fiction guy. Also ended up being the first Hebrew and first Israeli author I've read. This was definitely more on the overly quirky side of things (and man at those suicide puns), but the humor kind of made up for it. I liked it alright.

>Currently reading:
Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel
These are really living up to the praise someone gave her on /lit/ a while back (and her blog is really amusing too). Reminds me a lot of Amelia Gray's stories, which I guess are also similar to Miranda July's, who I haven't read yet. The stories are usually very short and the characters are idiosyncratic without being overly quirky. I saw a reviewer call them more neurotic than anything, which is why I think I'm finding these stories more relatable than Gray's. And I am really loving the bug diagrams.

Revenge of the Lawn by Richard Brautigan
I wish he had written more short story collections, because these are like a godly combination of his prose-like poetry and his novellas. I happened to get a copy where someone had circled all their favorites too, and my favorites are strangely lining up with theirs. I've liked "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" the best so far, with it's weirdly postmodern degression at the end.

>Next read:
Severin's Journey into the Dark by Paul Leppin, maybe start up Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia or R.K. Narayan's A Tiger for Malgudi.

For the near future after that, I'll likely be reading mostly contemporary lit and maybe vaguely poking at the books I own and haven't read yet.