Reading List [2017]

 
 

Currently Reading

  • Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow (2011).
  • Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat (2013).
  • Oliver Sacks's The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2016).
  • Paul Beatty's The Sellout (2015).
  • Dissertation stuff.
  • Questionable political commentary, courtesy of social media.

Read

  • Zadie Smith's Swing Time (2016).
 
"He isn’t doing that right—that was a very important one. It was what Astaire claimed he was thinking whenever he watched himself onscreen, and I noted that third-person pronoun. This is what I understood by it: that for Astaire the person in the film was not especially connected with him. And I took this to heart, or rather, it echoed a feeling I already had, mainly that it was important to treat oneself as a kind of stranger, to remain unattached...in your own case. I thought you needed to think like that to achieve anything in this world. Yes, I thought that was a very elegant attitude."
 

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006).

    • ——The Thing Around Your Neck (2009).

  • Roxane Gay's Hunger (2017).