What I read in June

Antología de la literatura fantástica, compiled by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. An extensive selection of fantastic stories, some more clearly so than others. My clear favorite was Enoch Soames, by Max Beerbohm, which is in the public domain. It's a great story. You can clearly see where it's going since the beginning, and it gets there masterfully. I also really liked one by Rudyard Kipling, The Finest Story in The World. My only problem with this compilation is that the translations are uncredited. I suspect several of them were done by Borges and Co., but this is not definitively stated. Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov. I loved this one. A pleasure to read. A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother, by Rachel Cusk. I have always had a thing for reading motherhood memoirs. I like them of all kinds. I appreciate the raw, angry ones written by women who had a really miserable time and I also appreciate the nice, conflict-free ones (which are, admittedly rarer). In…