Currently reading
Getting used to Daylight Savings again and recalibrating my internal clock. Â I’m normally sitting down in my study at home to check email, etc., this time of night and the shades are already down, but here I sit looking out the west window on a flaming orange-purple sunset spiked by the silhouettes of leafless treetops. Â Spring is coming!
I’ve been too busy the last couple weeks to do much reviewing, but I have been reading. Â At some point this week I’ll post my review of Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty (spoiler alert: it’s good!). Â I’ve also recently read Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese, translated by Kenneth Rexroth (a lovely, slim collection); People in Glass Houses, an early novel by Shirley Hazzard (she’s one of the authors in my “deep reading” project, where I read everything one writer published); Into the Beautiful North, the first novel I’ve read by Luis Alberto Urrea (looking for more of his stuff now); and Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey (“wonderful strange!” as another author tweeted me about it the other day). Â As of tonight, I’m not quite a quarter into A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book, and just got a notification from the library that they’re holding The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale for me. Â So the reading carries on, even as I get further behind in the reviewing…
What are you reading this month?
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