Books I read: The Anthologist — Nicholson Baker. I loved it. You won’t like it. Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense does it? It’s a short novel about a poet who is trying, and failing, to write the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry. He procrastinates, cleans his office, moons over his ex-girlfriend, helps a …
Category Archives: Books
The Books of July
During July I didn’t get as much reading/listening done as I often do. Summer takes up a lot of reading time. Listened to: The Water Knife — Paolo Bacigalupi (Narration by Almarie Guerra — who’s just fine to listen to.) A violent and thrilling view of a near future filled with the conflicts of the New West- …
Books of June
A writer’s notes about books. Here are the books I read and listened to in June. Read: A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James In which there are a damned sight more than seven killings. Some of the narrative is true in a broad sense. The politics of Jamaica, the US efforts to direct Latin …
#FridayReads 25.oct.2013
Tony Hillerman writes a predictably solid mystery. With a world that lives and breathes and is very different from the green, moist Pacific Northwest that I consider home. A month or so ago I started at the beginning of the Navajo series with The Blessing Way and am now up to Coyote Waits a little …
Books I Read A While Ago
Three from much earlier this year. In non-fiction, Charles Wheelan’s Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from Data. Professor does stats for dummies. Lots of baseball. I kind of like baseball and there are some amazing things being done with numbers in baseball. But mostly it’s the old standbys, drug research and the large scale health surveys …