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) …
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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 …
Arrival
It’s always night when I arrive. The little Embraer 145 lands and shudders to a heavily braked stop at the end of the runway. Then turns and taxis back toward the terminal. Where an air-stair is wheeled up to the side of the plane and we, the passengers, descend. The air is warm and damp, …
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 …
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- …