Rogue's Scholar

The Ginger Man
When we last spoke, I'd managed to ditch "one of the great rogues of literature" for a few days (believe me, he deserved it) to revel in the more immediate delights of Joyce Carol Oates' Bellefleur. But I did return to finish The Ginger Man over the weekend. While I never found much to love in Sebastian Dangerfield, Donleavy's raw and distressingly poignant prose--"But I come down martyred and mussed, feeble and fussed, heart and soul covered in cement."--certainly didn't disappoint.

January Reading List
Last year I failed miserably at recording my reading list for the 75 Book Challenge. This year I have a new strategy: I've re-discovered stickies on my iBook and am using them to keep track of the books I read as I read them, month by month. So without further ado: January.

Gertrude/Herman Hesse
The Sorrows of Young Werther/Goethe
Snow Country/Yasunari Kawabata
A Personal Matter/Kenzaburo Oe (reviewed)
Death in Venice/Thomas Mann
The Ginger Man/JP Donleavy

Comments

[Stephen Mather]

in accordance to my taste in books, your taste in books is magnificant. (Hesse and Mann are my absolute favorites)

[Stephen Mather]

Thank you for responding!
If you like Gertrude and have never read Steppenwolf by hesse, i would wholeheartedly recommend it. Also, a not very well known author, but one of my favorite, G.K. Chesterton, has a lovely book by the name of Manalive.