Currently reading

Getting used to Daylight Savings again and recalibrating my internal clock.  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.  Spring is coming!

I’ve been too busy the last couple weeks to do much reviewing, but I have been reading.  At some point this week I’ll post my review of Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty (spoiler alert: it’s good!).  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).  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.  So the reading carries on, even as I get further behind in the reviewing…

What are you reading this month?

14. March 2011 by Mindy
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