Since the office/writing room/reading room has been reclaimed from the cat, my reading speed has improved. I can read 376 words per minute. Staples says so. What’s your reading speed? Recent reads have been: The Art of Fielding – I was right there with this, until the end. That seems to be my go-to one-liner recently. It just felt too neat. More verbose ‘review’ may be coming soon! Full Dark House – This one I got from a Goodreads group…
Yesterday was spent trading notes with Sarge to save his hay-fevered voice. When was the last time you wrote a love note or letter? Somewhere between note 1 and 17, I finished reading my 20th book of the year. Recent reads have been: The Marriage Plot – Read this in three days. The first two I was right there with it. Yesterday, not so much. I was just happy to read complex sentences again. Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades,…
I am in the midst of sorting out books to give away/sell. As someone who actively hoards books, this is painful. But also a good thing. I want more space, less clutter. Fewer boxes to cart out when we move. Somewhere in my mission, I found this: I’m posting the above as proof, and for posterity. What should I do with it? And if you had an empty shelf, what would you do with it? …
I’ll admit, not a lot of reading has happened in the last two months. I’ve been busy being engaged, drafting a bunch of my own words and getting older. I read six books in January. And seven more whole ones in February and March. These are them: Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving Four to Score Post Office Tortilla Flat The Snow Child High Five The Sense of an Ending And they weren’t even…
