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I’ve been in a somewhat different reading block the last few weeks. It isn’t that I don’t like the books I’m currently reading, I just can’t hold my concentration. I think that is also reflected by the shortness of last month’s and this moth’s bibliolust. Right now, there’s really only two things on my list:
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While I’d like to say I hit the century mark in books for the second year in a row, technically I can’t. The year’s total? 96, not counting the book I finished this morning, most of which I read in the waning two days of 2008. But there are ways around technicalities.
Among the […]
For the second year in a row, I regret my tradition of limiting my list of books of the year to those actually published during the year. As a result, I’ve modified a once or twice used category to lead off this year’s list. Otherwise, my list wouldn’t include the best book I read this […]
As I was reviewing my reading list for the year in preparation for making my nominations (due today) for the National Book Critics Circle book awards, I noted clear evidence of the fixations I’ve commented on in the last year or so.
First, there was the foreign fiction fixation. That, in turn, led to […]
All book lovers have some feelings of guilt about the “to be read” stacks or shelves in their home. They are the result of the literary equivalent of one’s eyes being bigger than their stomach. Now two columnists on opposite sides of the Atlantic have added mortality to the implications of the TBR.
I first […]
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