Monthly Archives: January 2016
Book 16: Alejandro Zambra’s ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Posted on January 14, 2016 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra. And we’re posting about The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain — and How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis and River House by Sally Keith and who knows what else because it’s the playoffs, most of our teams are done for the […]
Fever Dreams: On Eleanor Davis’s ‘How to Be Happy’
Posted on January 13, 2016 2 Comments
By Adam Boretz Because of a high fever, ear infection, and generally delicate constitution — my doctor once told me I have the stored protein levels of “a frail elderly woman” — I ended up reading Eleanor Davis’s How to Be Happy twice. The first time, I burned through about two-thirds of the book, took […]
Getting the Most Out of One Woman’s Suffering: On ‘The Case Against Satan’
Posted on January 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
The Case against Satan is ostensibly about an exorcism. The haunting cover would seem to suggest the book is concerned with the woman who does (or does not) need to be exorcised. It is concerned with her, as far as how she arrived at her current state, sort of. It cares about saving her, for […]
Book 15: Mairtin O Cadhain’s ‘The Dirty Dust’
Posted on January 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
This week, Football Book Club is reading The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain — and getting caught up after the holidays with posts about everything from How to Be Happy by Eleanor Davis to River House by Sally Keith. The Dirty Dust — all the characters of which are dead in their graves — has finally been translated into […]
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