@MileStyle

Reading classic, contemporary, and translated work. (And some horror.)

 Glasgow, Scotland
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Joined March 2008
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The shelves must be fed.
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Today’s Nobel is clearly the kick up the backside I need to read this guy, rather than acquire him. #nobelprize
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The new remaindered table at my main Waterstone’s. It’s NYRB heavy, and spoke to me. #books
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A poem by David Markson
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Money To Burn (2020) by Asta Olivia Nordenhof (tr: Caroline Waight, 2025) the first #book of a septology inspired by the Scandinavian Star ferry disaster in 1990. Really liked this concise and angry little book. booklit.com/blog/2025/01/27/…

Asta Olivia Nordenhof: Money To Burn - booklit

The Scandinavian Star was a passenger ferry that, in the small hours of April 7th, 1990, went up in flames, killing 159 people. Generally considered an

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Has anyone ever read Tom De Haven? I finally found a cheap copy of the third volume of his Funny Papers trilogy. I’ve just never seen anyone write or talk about his work.
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After Sundown: New Horror Short Stories (2020, ed: Mark Morris) The first of an annual anthology from Flame Tree Press. booklit.com/blog/2025/01/20/…

Mark Morris (ed): After Sundown - booklit

After Sundown (2020) is the first from an annual non-themed horror anthology by Flame Tree Press. With no particular focus, editor Mark Morris has cast the

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A Perfect Waiter, Alain Claude Sulzer (2004, tr: John Brownjohn, 2008) This one finally made its way to the top of Mount TBR after 13 years. booklit.com/blog/2024/12/30/…

Alain Claude Sulzer: A Perfect Waiter - booklit

The role of a waiter is to perform unseen, to serve people and, barring the occasional nod or small talk, to be both discrete and unmemorable. They must give

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2024 BOOKS READ 001. The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (1920) My first Christie, her first novel, and Poirot’s debut. Elaborate for sure, and I was more sloth than sleuth in solving this. As a story it’s weak, but as a puzzle its intricacy is enjoyable.
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038: Trilogy, Jon Fosse (2014, tr: May-Brit Akerholt, 2016) The circularity of life and the trappings of fate make up these three historical novellas (2007, 2012, and 2014), as young lovers Asle and Alida search for a place to call home. Definitely works better as a whole.
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039: A Perfect Waiter, Alain Claude Sulzer (2004, tr: John Brownjohn, 2008) Straddling two decades, thirty years apart, a meticulously quiet take on love, isolation, regret, repression, and class as one young waiter gets between two men, one a Thomas Mann-like character.
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A frosty one today.
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BluRay arrival. All the Haunts be Ours, the second volume of folk horror from Severin Films. And this ones comes with an accompanying book of short stories.
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Normally I like the covers of a Penguin limited series, but can't say I like any of the new Penguin Weird series. Still gonna get the Bennett, though.
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One day I’ll find the time to read him. But it’s another for the shelves* for now. * Disorganised stacks, boxes, and other random piles.
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A fun day’s hunting in Edinburgh.
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Amazon’s AI must have thought, well he’s in Scotland, let’s mock him.
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Had a wander around the shops of St. Andrews today.
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