Mikhail Bulgakov – Katie McCandless

Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov is a satirical allegory of the Russian Revolution, telling the absurd story of a dog implanted with the testes and pituitary gland of a recently dead man

reading YA and pretending to understand obtuse Russian literature – book reviews for the week

KatieJuly 22, 2016July 22, 2016

Just finished Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell This book was a special treat that I’d been saving as a sweet palate cleanser between two much more challenging novels (Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and Mikhail Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog). It served its purpose well, but I didn’t love it as much as the other Rainbow Rowell books […]

revolutionary allegories to wash out the aftertaste of misogyny – book reviews for the week

KatieJuly 18, 2016

Just finished This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper I’m not sure how to talk objectively about this misogynistic piece of garbage without revealing my bias. Whoops. See? There I go already. It’s like a Mad Libs Frankenstein monster of every book you’ve ever read by a white guy before 2010. Dad didn’t say much growing […]