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England 2K State Insekt by Tempest Miller
Once there was a time when I used to get a lot of free books sent to me because [it was possible to argue that] I was an “up-and-coming” something. Many years later, I do still get the occasional free...
View ArticleAlphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Alphabetical Diaries, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2024 Honestly… I think that Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti is one of the best books I’ve ever read. –///– Alphabetical Diaries is deeply moving and...
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Very Far Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K Le Guin
I read this book quickly, in a couple of sittings, and both times I found myself straining to continue reading as the practical circumstances of the moment conspired against me (e.g. the first time...
View ArticleStill Pictures: On Photography & Memory by Janet Malcolm
This text – unless something has been cobbled together since, which seems unlikely given the bizarre introduction from a [presumably] agéd friend and the satisfying afterword from her daughter – is...
View ArticleDeadlocked by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #12)
I’m nearly at the end. Now that I’ve read Deadlocked I have only one more novel left from the pen of Charlaine Harris about my best friends in the world, Sookie Stackhouse and the gang… I mean,...
View ArticleThere’s No business like BUSINESS! by Brian Butterfield
Is this some kind of joke? A more (i.e. not non-) financially astute friend of mine gifted me a copy of “businessman, entrepreneur and business man” Brian Butterfield’s recent book, There’s No...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Beta-2 & Empire Star by Samuel R Delany
Okokok, yes, i know, maybe I’ve read too many Delany books recently but all regular readers of TriumphOfTheNow.com know that this is how the blog works: I find a writer I like (or think I like) and...
View ArticleFuture by Tom Woodman, Rupert Smissen & Aditya Bidikar
I’ve mentioned it before, but every birthday and every XXXmas my lover buys me time travel fiction. (((I’ll likely mention this again as the baby (who I have had with my long term partner (and...
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Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse #13 (of 13))
Endings are tough. There’s a reason many choose to avoid them. There are people who would rather wait decades for death than deal with the stress of breaking up with someone they can’t stand… there...
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To Rest Our Minds & Bodies by Harriet Armstrong
Coming from Les Fugitives in 2025 – I was lucky enough to receive an ARC! To Rest Our Minds & Bodies is a beautiful, upsetting, serious novel, yet also seriously funny… A blunt yet complex...
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