Another Successful Trip To Bookhounds
Had some good luck at Bookhounds (simultaneously the greatest bookstore and thrift shop within 80 miles of Bakersfield, CA). All of this for less than twenty bucks. Really loving this…
Reading Log: Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
Well, now I’m all out of Thom Jones books. Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine is the last of Jones’s three published works. He’s got a couple loose stories…
Reading Log: John Cavanagh’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn (A 33 1/3 Book)
Yup, more rock journalism. I’m not tired of it yet. Cavanagh sights in perfectly here, focusing on the album itself and only touching on the tumultuous events that followed (the…
2015 Reading Goals: January
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/
Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Reading Old Editions
I read an old copy of an old poem. I was given this gorgeous anthology of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s work, an original Excelsior Edition published in 1880. The book is…
A River Runs Through It and USFS 1919
I read these two novellas back-to-back, in an anthology that also featured the wonderfully named short story “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’”. A River Runs Through It is…
Reading Log: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley
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,…
(Aborted) Reading Log: Gone Girl and Why I Need to Give Up on Reading Books That David Fincher Makes Into Movies.
I gave up eighty pages in and skimmed the rest for plot (I always try to make it at least 50 pages in good faith with any novel-length reading endeavor).…
Reading Log: Paul Harding’s Tinkers
Tinkers by Paul Harding Tinkers is a short book, but it was hard to get through. One might be tempted to call the prose purple if it weren’t…
Reading Log: Thom Jones’s Cold Snap
Cold Snap is Jones’s second collection of stories, a follow-up to his acclaimed debut The Pugilist at Rest. Cold Snap borrows some of the characters from his earlier collection, and…