Here's links to 2025 Books I & II. 2024's readings. 2023. September 2021 to December 2022.
Anyway, a few days ago I finished Fresh Green Life by Sebastian Castillo.
I knew that it was about a guy in his thirties who has been living in self-imposed isolation for a year who goes to a News Year's Eve party with friends and colleagues from his university days. You can read the linked review if you want. But I will just say that I enjoyed the book. If held a few surprises for me as it went along. I found the language of the narrator a little pompous at first. I wasn't sure if that was intentional on the part of the writer to mock the narrator, or whether it was the writer's own voice. Whatever it was, it faded and the rest of the time was smooth sailing. In the end it was (for me) a hilarious send-up of the lives of academics. [Here's a link to the narrator's favourite film.]
