2015 Final Count: 130
It was a very good year for reading. In total, I read 130 novel-length volumes this year, including some heavies like “Infinite Jest” and an 800-page biography of Alan Turing.…
Oliver Sacks’ “On the Move” -a rich existence relived
I finished the late Oliver Sacks’ most recent (and most general) memoir days before his death. As an avid listener of Radiolab (where he was a frequent contributor) I was…
Update
Regular postings are resumed. I’ve just gotten back from spending the better part of the month gallivanting about the Western United States on and in various modes of overland transportation,…
Reading Log: The Month of May
11 books down in 5/15. Literature in translation, some classics, some light/funny work, assorted miscellanea, and a couple of lit mags (Thrice has officially hooked me). It was a good…
100 Posts
WordPress has just informed me that my last post was number 100 on seanvansickel.com. That seems like a lot of posts since last September... Thanks so much for reading and…
Reading Log: April Recap
April was a great month for reading. I knocked out thirteen titles, all very diverse (graphic novels, male and female authors, works in translation, nonfiction, anthologies, etc.). Beyond the ones…
Reading Log: March
I did much better this month, but I had to really buckle down toward the end. I read a couple back issues of literary journals, some work in translation, a…
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…