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Reading Log: Matthew Vollmer’s Inscriptions for Headstones

By seanvansickel February 7, 2015Reading Journal

Reading diversely isn’t just about reading authors who are diverse in their ethnicity, gender, nationality, or sexual identity. It also includes reading diverse kinds of books or literary forms, books…

2015 Reading Goals: January

By seanvansickel February 3, 2015Reading Journal

I read 11 books this month and I’m happy with my selections. Well on the way to my goals for 2015. http://seanvansickel.com/2015/01/19/2014-revisited-with-metadata/

Reading Log: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley

By seanvansickel January 28, 2015Uncategorized

At 58, John Steinbeck drove across America for a little over three months in a camper pickup with his elderly French poodle, Charley. The dog was not only a companion,…

2014 Revisited, with Metadata!

By seanvansickel January 19, 2015Uncategorized1 Comment

I decided to go through the list of books I read last year, compiling data. I used the incredibly scientific method of thinking up some interesting categories on the drive…

Reading Log: Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (a 33⅓ book)

By seanvansickel January 16, 2015Uncategorized

Kim Cooper’s 33⅓ entry on Neutral Milk Hotel’s magnum opus In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a good read for fans of the album, the band, or the alternative…

Call For Nonfiction 2015

By seanvansickel January 7, 2015Uncategorized

Thrownby Kerry Howley I want to read a bit more nonfiction this year. My 2014 reading list was varied in the sense that it represented different time periods,…

2014 Book List and Best of 2014’s Reading

By seanvansickel January 2, 2015Uncategorized

These are the books I’ve read this year. I’m afraid this list pulls the curtain aside; there are a few books you can see I’ve read but haven’t…

Used book haul

By seanvansickel November 13, 2014Uncategorized

My latest haul from Bookhounds, all between 0.75 and 1.99. Some gifts, some for me, including a back issue of The Paris Review with some interesting short stories and nonfiction.

John Gardner’s On Becoming a Novelist

By seanvansickel November 12, 2014Reading Journal2 Comments

I’m generally extremely shy about craft-based books on writing. I have yet to read Stephen King’s On Writing, and ever Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer was picked up rather…

Milan Kundera’s Testaments Betrayed

By seanvansickel November 7, 2014Uncategorized1 Comment

This was probably the most intellectually challenging book I’ve read all year. Translated from the French, it's a massive essay on a broad range of topics including but not limited…