The Malady of Death
By
Marguerite Duras
Short story
5/5
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Been in the tbr shelf for an awhile and saw it in Eslite yesterday.
So far, very nice. 
smooth prose. Silky.
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Which elite has the best English selection? I’m looking to pick up James cavell’s Tai pan
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No idea. I was at the one behind the Taipei dome. They had a pretty big English section. It was OK. But who knows how deep the section is compared to other stores? I was looking for Susan Sontag and came up empty. 
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It was an experience and I feel empty.
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Got an author name?
Not sure which one we are looking at.
The only one. There isn’t another book called Circe.
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Another extremely popular book. About half-way through but I kind of don’t really love it? It’s got a few moments of brilliance but overall I find the writing pretty awful so far. I’ll see how it goes …
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Interesting book in that I never really understood that even after Chile’s return to democracy, left of centre governments kept the Chicago School of Reforms such as open markets, defined contribution pensions, weak unions, school vouchers, etc.–at least until recently.
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Excellent book.
The following is my review:
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Human capital has become supreme in the twentieth century and America led the way. At the start of the century, Americans had embraced the novel idea what the “wealth of nations” would be embodied in its human capital stock; it would take even the richer nations of Europe about five decades or more to catch on to that notion.
Everything I know about Catholicism and communism in Italy I learned from “The Little World of Don Camillo”.
I finished it and I thought it was really mediocre. The plot is fun enough but the writing is borderline intolerable. It was a very fast read though.
The Ballad of the Sad Café
by
Carson McCullers
3/5
Good Southern Gothic short read about the old south in America.
Sweet Bean Paste
By
Durian Sekegawa
3/5
Inspirational touching short story about a confectionery shop and some people that revolve around the most popular item.
Just finished. What a truly marvelous work of art. I can only imagine how much better it is in Spanish.
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