Kit TeguhFalling flat on your ass in Roberto Bolaño’s Skating Rink.Roberto Bolaño is one of those writers that I have always wanted to read but have never really picked up. His books are not readily…Jun 19Jun 19
Kit TeguhSlicing through the dark materials. Phillip Pullman’s The (not-so) Subtle KnifeBefore all this garbage like Acolyte, the Han Solo movie and the latter sequels (and prequels), Star Wars was one of the best movie…Jun 17Jun 17
Kit TeguhWill the real Goldfinch please stand up? Why you should read Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.Heads up: spoilers abound :)Jun 14Jun 14
Kit TeguhYou gotta wash those bloody pants hay. On Brashares’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Yeah I get it. I’m not a teenage girl. People keep telling me that. I’m a 37 year old dude who’s probably got no business reading young…Jun 11Jun 11
Kit TeguhWhat does the fox say? The fantastic Fantastic Mr FoxWith its short page count of about eighty pages, and a generous douse of images by the delectable Quentin Blake, who it seems always…Jun 10Jun 10
Kit TeguhLost at sea on a sinking ship. Reading Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The SeaSpoiler warning. Go buy this book though. It’s bloody good.Jun 7Jun 7
Kit TeguhWhy Tina Fey is Bossypants (and Amy Poehler is a pleaser)Poehler, Kaling and now Fey. I think I’ve completed the trifecta of autobiographies written by female improvs. I was deeply enamoured by…Jun 4Jun 4
Kit TeguhThe horrors of Canada’s internment of Japanese residents in Kogawa’s Obasan.During World War II, when the Nazis were busy rounding up the Jewish population, the North Americans were also doing the same to their…May 30May 30
Kit TeguhGetting your head out of the clouds. Brett Scott argues why cash should still be king.The war on cash is progressing better than Russia’s war on Ukraine. It is a battle that the banks and state actors are winning, and it’s…May 29May 29
Kit TeguhUn-tattooing the memory of reading Morris’s The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe true story of Lale Solokov is a rare, heartfelt story of holocaust survival, which at surface value in itself should be an uplifting…May 28May 28