I post the 2016 reads on twitter (@pesbo). I used to heavily hyperlink the summary posts but that add 3x the time. Maybe links mean that publishers and writers can more readily find mention of what they sent into the world. Or maybe trackback isn’t common as it used to be. This much I can say […]
Category Archives: Currently reading
The Stats: 2015
Almost a third of what I read was written this year or last with a push over the last couple months to finish up new things. Last year that rate was 57% was the current year. I was aiming to read more classics but 66% of what I read was published in the 15 most […]
Favourite Books from 2015
Rating books there’s the immediate buzz of bzzt, a no or a wow, but then 6 months pass and do they stay with you or are long gone? My top more or less 10% favourite reads of 2015: Another world: 300 Selected Poems of the Tang Dynasty by Chiang Yee/Jiang Yi — The translation makes […]
95books: List 25: Family in Poetry 207-216
207. Aethel by Donato Mancini (New Star Books, 2007) Got and did not read right off. Tendonitis Androgenous uses a sign language (ASL?) as starting point for textual manipulation. Some such as as the tangle called “What are you reading” or “We Come in Peace” (below) are humourous. Aethel looked like two parallel text, titles […]
Upcoming Books
I have to admit that while I may get to 220 books and chapbooks in the year, it might lodge around the less round and pretty number of 217. In either case I’m somewhere over 25,000 pages read. I’m not alone in formalizing this to a degree. At the GoodReads’ Reading Challenge 1.7 million people […]