Jonathan Gibbs Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jonathan Gibbs

“The embrace of face by face is the true carnival of sex beyond gender.” Gillian Rose, in ‘Love’s Work’. Dangerous reading in a heatwave.

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Due a reread, but it will take time. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me would be my recommendation for a shorter introduction to Javier Marías (who has just died) to anyone who hasn’t read him.

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2023 Reading Book 28: Greek Lessons by Han Kang, trans Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won. Less visceral than The Vegetarian, which I found definitely uncomfortable to read. But perhaps smoothness isn’t everything. https://t.co/Z1hJEFKyzL

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And secondly, the first guest-editor of 2023 will be Alison Moore (@alimooreauthor), author of The Lighthouse, The Retreat, and two short story collections. I can't wait to see what she picks! Sign up here to get her selection in your inbox this Friday! https://t.co/52pIBhkPhQ

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Picked almost at random off the shelf at work yesterday, finished on the way to the @CityUCU picket line this morning: Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis. A charmingly unheimlich and near-plotless foreigner-in-Berlin tale… https://t.co/VIghuZ6BGo

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Books seen on commute (to strike) this morning: Hamnet Women Talking Crawdads Jellyfish Age Backwards by Nicklas Brendborg Where do we go from Here by Martin Luther King Surrounded by Bad Bosses and Lazy Employees: Or, How to Deal with Idiots at Work by Thomas Erikson

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@drewgum @RachelMalik99 @citywriting i) Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness by Simon Kinch, in which a young American in Spain both does and doesn't go home to the US, and ii) Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Tsepeneag, in which loops the same series of events over and over, with variations.

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Very exciting book post: I’ve been looking forward to reading this, from @GalleyBeggars, for ages: After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz. https://t.co/62ho2FeKh7

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2023 Reading Book 21: The Waves by Virginia Woolf. Bought because I can't find my old grey-liveried PMC and we're going to see Woolf Works at the weekend (£10 ticket at the top of the Royal Opera House) and I wanted to refresh myself, not having read it since I was a teen. https://t.co/EXkpDTrpGq

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I’ve heard about this book - his first memoir - from my friend Gavin McCrea, author of the brilliant Mrs Engels and The Sisters Mao. He promised me raw and uncompromising, and it looks like @ScribeUKbooks have taken that on board in terms of the cover design! I’m, um, going in? https://t.co/DGTa86qlcf