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Category Archives: reviews
The Books of November
Reviews: Big Magic, Stardust, Pump Six, Furiously Happy, Palimpsest, Deathless, Antelope Wife, Signature of All Things, What Poets Are Like, Speak Easy
The Books of October
Late, because well, it’s late. Books Read: Library of Souls: The Third Miss Peregrine Book — Ransom Riggs Not as good as the earlier books in the trilogy. You can tell in places that he’s added material (generally sentence or two of description of the appearance of a character — a walk-on part as it were) …
The Books of September
Listened to: The Night Circus: Erin Morgenstern — This is a repeat. I loved the book and enjoyed listening to it a couple of years ago. I revisited it on the morning walks early in September. I still love it. Ms. Morgenstern has been somewhat publicly working on her next books for several years. I hope …
The Books of August
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 …