Category Archives: Currently reading

The mailbox has been happily munching chapbooks over the last few hours. Sugar Beach by Camille Martin. A much more linear thing than the last sequence I saw from her. Albanian Suite by High Thomas and , N.W. Lea’s Present. Those three as well as a broadside by Maria Erskin (out of photo) will be […]

Starting again at 1. Jonathan Ball has how to begin and proceed doing your 95 books per year. He’s up for it again. You may notice he goes by the UN definition of book of 48 pages. It’s good to have a standard to define by. I’m going broader, as I did last year with […]

Looking back I realized that I planned to finish List 15 — said I’d continue in 16 and did to a degree, but forgot Reiss’ The Survival of Butterflies in the Wild. Earlier I forgot Wanda John-Kehewin’s In the Doghouse (which I mislaid and, for the life of me, couldn’t find for weeks). That means, […]

Wrapping up the year of reading, finishing up books from the almost done shelf. I briefly thought of scanning in each cover but then, how about this instead? There’s not much linking this set thematically. Some books overlap in style or obsessions but as a group it’s more time and place than subjects. 163 total. […]

I’ve let so much time lapse, it’s a bit of scramble to reconstruct the order of what I read. Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney (1580s), from sonnet 34 Come, let me write. “And to what end?” To ease A burthen’d heart. “How can words ease, which are The glasses of thy daily vexing care?” […]