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MICHAEL KAMAKANA
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We are all told, “live your life to the fullest”; I am here to do just that. MichaelKamakana serves as a vessel to project my passions, and clue in my loyal readers as to what inspires me in this crazy world. So, sit back, relax, and read on.
On reading my book 'Advent'
I am reading my book 'Advent' for the 2nd time since published, trying to encourage me in my current writing, trying to prove that yes, I...
Extinction: A Novel (book review) Thomas Bernhard
220114: having read a few austrian novels, several jelinek, in particular [book:The Piano Teacher|764953], i have general idea that it is...
2021 on Goodreads by Various
211227: not quite the end of the year but not likely to read much more. big decision this year was that when i reached an arbitrary...
Time Regained (book review) by Marcel Proust
201119: well this is conundrum for though it is not like there are no other books to read, the question is- should i try to read it in...
Henri Bergson: Key Writings (book review) Henri Bergson
(Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) 201111: have now read [book:Creative Evolution|379659] and can see how it is controversial in...
The Scar (book review) China Miéville
(New Crobuzon, #2) 210712: actually maybe less than five- but i did read it in three sittings. seems to be quibbling to say i never liked...
Death's End (book review) Liu Cixin
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
The Three-Body Problem (book review) Liu Cixin
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...
One seeing 'The Frontier' (movie review)
This movie is set in undefined period, though by fashion, cars, hairstyle, it seems mid-70s or earlier, is modern Neo-noir or pulp...
The Song of Achilles (book review) Madeline Miller
240410: this was an easy, quick read, that i had thought was simply a historical novel at the beginning, that i had to rethink what i had...
Three Day Road (book review) Joseph Boyden
030811: powerful story weaving together the madness of civilization destroying itself by war, and the end of a way of life, beautifully...
The Burglar (book review) David Goodis
051010 second review: i just read it again. realized this is perhaps my favourite goodis- probably for the doomed romance plot. here the...
The Unicorn (book review) Iris Murdoch
i have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...
Bleak House (book review) Charles Dickens
130117: this is a later later addition: as a reading project i have read several dickens this year, as follows: this is a later addition:...
Time and Free Will (book review) Henri Bergson
An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness F.L. Pogson (Translator) 240716 this is a much later later addition: i have now read ...
Children of the Sea, Volume 1 (book review) Daisuke Igarashi
(Children of the Sea, #1) 230915: possibly the most beautiful art i have seen in graphic work. in extensive depiction of the seas, the...
The Lover (book review) Marguerite Duras
211121: another reason to improve my french reading. read at least three times. this slim novella is exactly what i want in romance:...
The Prospector (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio
Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...
Desert (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio
C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...
