2009

2009 CE.

2009 is the publication year for the editions below.

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The White Album and Notes to John

Joan Didion
Contemporary 21st Century American Literature Memoir Non-Fiction

I appreciate that her work seems to be suddenly available and back in print. I often find it on shelves and see it arriving at my local independent bookstore.

Short Letter, Long Farewell

Peter Handke
ContemporaryLiterature

Short Letter, Long Farewell is heavily influenced by film noir. The plot does not drive forward in a straight line, but the one element that does provide consistent momentum is the narrator’s attempts to escape his ex-wife.

A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts

Ying Chang Compestine
21st Century American-Chinese Horror

It was my lovely spouse who actually recommended this book. She’s made quite few of Compestine’s recipes and enjoyed them almost as much as I know she enjoyed the stories. This is a review of Ying Chang Compestine’s A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts.

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo
Romantic Era French Literature

Due to how many adaptations it has had and how prominent it is in the canon of classic literature, I thought it would be a staple of used bookstores or the bigger new bookstores. Well, it isn’t. This is a review of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris or The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.