French Satanic Dagger circa 1880s-1910s.
Blade possibly made from Model 1886 LeBel bayonet.
Detailed cast bronze hilt, articulated visor on helm.
Blade and hilt plated. Scabbard throat reinforced.
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Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson
All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung
Dear Committee Members - Julie Schumacher
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makai
Motherhood - Sheila Heti
The Tradition - Jericho Brown
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Indian America from 1890 to Present -David Treuer
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. - Eve Babitz
Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature - Bruce Handy
Night Film - Marisha Pessl
The Shakespeare Requirement - Julie Schumacher
What Should Be Wild - Julia Fine
Strange The Dreamer - Laini Taylor
Innapropriation - Lexi Friedman
The Other Americans - Laila Lalami
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold - John LeCarre
Little - Edward Carrey
Everything Lost is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho - Will McGrath
The Orchard - Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Melmoth - Sarah Perry
Like Rock Needs River - Vanessa McGrady’
A Cruelty Special to Our Species - Emily Jungmin Yoon
Time’s Convert - Deborah Harkness
The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
A Torch Against the Night - Sabaa Tahir
I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean - Shayla Lawson
At Home in the World - Joyce Maynard
Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Inglass Wilder - Caroline Fraser
Four-Legged Girl - Diane Seuss
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Alanna: The First Adventure - Tamora Pierce
Lord of Shadows - Cassandra Clare
Convenient Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
The Carrying - Ada Limon
The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon
The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lexnievich
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday
Mr. Splitfoot - Samantha Hunt
Transit - Rachel Cusk
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession - Alice Bolin
The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
Home - Marilynne Robinson
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyou
There There - Tommy Orange
The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Graham
The Magicians Nephew - C.S. Lewis
A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith ed. Ilya Kaminsky
Nicotine - Nell Zink
The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
Reversible - Marisa Crawford
The Outsider - Stephen King
Awayland - Ramona Ausubel
The Sparsholt Affair - Alan Hollinghurst
The Book of Speculation - Erika Swyler
Autumn - Ali Smith
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath - Leslie Jamison
How to Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ
Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - Monica Hesse
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Female Persuasion - Meg Wolitzer
Tangerine - Christine Mangan
Calling a Wolf a Wolf - Kaveh Akbar
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Virgin - Analicia Sotelo
Magdalene - Marie Howe
blud - Rachel McKibbons
Nice Try, Jane Sinner - Lianne Oelke
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure - Amy Kaufman
The Hazel Wood - Melissa Albert
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore - Kim Fu
Sweetbitter - Stephanie Danler
Beneath the Sugar Sky - Seanan McGuire
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
Fire Sermon - Jamie Quatro
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in an American City - Matthew Desmond
The Vet’s Daughter - Barbara Comyns
The Glass Eye - Jeannie Venasco
Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo
The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani
Heartless - Marissa Meyer
The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Along with these there are a number of books that I’ve been reading slowly but haven’t quite finished:
Roger Reeve’s King Me. I’m still thinking about the poem Domestic Violence.
Feeld by Jos Charles
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You - Frank Stanford
Frank Bidart’s Half Light: Collected Poems.
David Wojnawaricz’ Close to the Knives
The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein
Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey
I’m also rereading Marilyn Robinson’s The Death of Adam and The Giveness of Things
Other things that I’ve read this year that are sticking with me: ProPublica’s excellent investigation into the lack of justice for the teenage boys murdered on Long Island The Disappeared, The New Yorker’s How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity, The Feels of Love by T Kira Madden, Patricia Lockwood’s How Do We Write Now? Pretty much anything Patricia Lockwood has written for the London Review of books, including on Lucia Berlin, on Rachel Cusk, on Joan Didion. Living with Slenderman by Kathleen Hale, How I Broke, and Botched, The Brandon Teena Story, by Donna Minkowitz, Texas Monthly’s fascinating Schlitterhban’s Tragic Slide, Elisa Gabbert’s Big & Slow
I don’t listen to many books on tape, but every Autumn I find myself relistening to Jim Dale’s narration of the Harry Potter books. For some reason this year I found myself crying more than I ever had while listening. I’ve been trying to methodically reread a lot of the books I read as a child, and just like books like Charlotte’s Web and The Lord of the Rings, they possess something more profoundly sad to me as an adult then there ever was as a child.
Reading Goals of 2019:
There’s a lot to look forward to next year, and I’ve written a lot elsewhere about the books I’m most looking forward to. However as reading has become more attached to my actual career, I’ve begun to think about how I consume books and whether I should spend less time reading and more time doing other things. Trying to shake off the inertia I’ve sunk into with my own writing I’ve also felt that I should maybe delete this blog, which I started because I wanted a place to talk about books, and which I have poured so much time and energy into over the past two years. I can’t quite bring myself to just delete it, but I have been trying to slowly extricate myself from it, which has seemed harder than I thought possible. But that’s my goal of 2019, read less, do other things more.
