Recent reading

[troisoiseaux]

Read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, which turned out to be the book that I had wanted Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands to be: both can be summarized as "old woman living alone in the woods stumbles across a murder mystery (or does she?)", but I like what Tokarczuk did with this premise much better. It also reminded me, more abstractly, of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi— it's the use of Capitalization by its first-person Narrator, I think, but also something about how the story is filtered through the narrator's surreal understanding of the world, her naming of things and sense of guardianship for a place. Although in Janina's case, this leads her to start serial killing local hunters, so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯