Well, 2017 hasn’t officially started yet, so I’ve still been reading a lot. Mostly books I have not been loving that much. So, you know, be forewarned. Not a lot of solid winners in this post.
Category: Books
Recent Reads
Here’s what I’ve been reading over the late summer and into fall:
Summer Reads
Well, I did it again. I waited too long. So, here’s a giant post on everything I read this whole summer! This is going to be so long that I can’t imagine anyone will read it except possibly my mother, but now that I’ve started doing this, I feel a compulsive need to blog about every […]
Recent Reads
I guess if I’m going to do these, I need to do them more frequently, because this is going to be super long. Here’s all the stuff I’ve read over the past couple of months, if anyone is interested!
Status
I am moving to Austin in like three weeks and downsizing from a three bedroom, two living room house to a small one-bedroom apartment. The only thing on my to do list for today was to start packing (and possibly culling?) my approximately 400,000 books. As of 11:00am, I have packed exactly zero books, but I have ordered […]
Death, The Holocaust, and Other Childhood Experiences
I had a lot of things I needed to do this evening, so naturally, I started making a list of all the books I would hypothetically buy for the starting library of any children I might one day have.
Recent Reads
Everybody really liked my year in reading post, so now I’m thinking I should maybe write more about the books I read. But I have this problem – because I read so much, people tend to go read the books I rate at five stars or say that I love, and then a lot of times […]
Books I Read in 2015
This time last year, I made a resolution to read less and live more. I failed miserably on both counts, oops. I read 95 books in 2015! And one was Infinite Jest, which should probably round me up to 100 at least. I think this might be a personal record.
I’ve Been Reading: Winner of the National Book Award
Shit, I had some vague idea I might write this book one day, but it seems Jincy Willett has beaten me to the punch (and undoubtedly done a better job of it than I would have).
