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Reading Log: Gabriel García Márquez’s Of Love and Other Demons

By seanvansickel March 20, 2015Reading Journal

Márquez himself needs no introduction, but his short novel Of Love and Other Demons had completely escaped my radar. My experience with Spanish-language magic realism had been limited to short…

Reading Log: The Year of Magical Thinking

By seanvansickel March 9, 2015Reading, Reading Journal

This is some of the most powerful nonfiction I have ever read. Didion gets put up on a pedestal in many circles, but it’s hard to argue convincingly that she…

Reading Log: February in Review

By seanvansickel March 5, 2015Reading Journal

February was a rather lean month. Between working very long hours at a new school and trying to juggle a few other projects and responsibilities, my reading (and writing) tapered…

Reading Log: Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There

By seanvansickel March 4, 2015Reading Journal

My girlfriend picked this up, read it in a day or two, then passed it on to me. I’d never heard of it (or seen the Academy Award-winning movie) and…

Reading Log: Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine

By seanvansickel February 6, 2015Reading Journal

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…

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/

A River Runs Through It and USFS 1919

By seanvansickel January 29, 2015Reading Journal

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: Paul Harding’s Tinkers

By seanvansickel January 23, 2015Uncategorized

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…

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: John Gardner’s Grendel

By seanvansickel January 18, 2015Uncategorized

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…