A research group compiled the 1000 most popular titles owned by libraries worldwide. LibraryThing lists books that are in the zeitgeist. Traditionally I’ve considered that if something is popular it’s safely covered and will be carried into the future. I can expend my energies on other things. So the next chunk of the 95Books endeavour […]
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Apples and Peaches
There’s a plainness, a yearning, a clarity of images but not an over-simplicity. On p. 39, in the poem All I May Ever Know by Brenda Brooks, Blue Light In The Dash, (Polestar, 1994), What I need is a fever of another kind, and a distant cabin to have it in. p. 42-3 Stormy Weather, […]
95 Books, Part 3
Various people on twitter are ringing in when they finish another for the 95books challenge. I’ve been doing currently reading lists here irregularly since 2007 but that’s more a pop quiz of what I have open. Some I zip thru and never record having read. Some books I abandon. Some I peck away at for […]