2014 Revisited, with Metadata!
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: John Gardner’s Grendel
Grendel is the first full-length John Gardner novel I’ve read. I’m blown away. Go buy this book and read it now. Gardner gives voice to the Other (here the oldest…
Why I Write This Blog, and What It Is
This blog is intended primarily to serve as a personal reading log, where I record my initial, raw thoughts on the books I have read. These are thoughts that may…
The Little Prince and Reading Children’s Books as an Adult
I read The Little Prince for the first time this week. It’s an amazing book for children and I’m sure re-reading it as an adult is magical, but there’s…
Reading Log: Denis Johnson’s Nobody Move
This was a fun one. One of the most frequent complaints about literary fiction is that “nothing happens”. Fair enough. It’s a trope that the best writers either transcend or…
Call For Nonfiction 2015
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,…
Reading Log: The Paris Review Winter 2004
I’ve never purchased as subscription to The Paris Review, for the following reasons: -I’m broke as hell -They have most of their back interviews and lots of other good…
Reading Log: John Darnielle’s Master of Reality (A 33⅓ Book)
I received three books from Bloomsbury's 33⅓ series for Christmas, and since Master of Reality is the only other published book written by extraordinary human being John Darnielle, it…
2014 Book List and Best of 2014’s Reading
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…
Reading Log: Raymond Carver’s A New Path to the Waterfall
When Raymond Carver was diagnosed with terminal Stage IV lung cancer, he kept on being Raymond Carver. He kept writing and he kept reading, finding some comfort or meaning in…