Author: Teri Rife

Nine stories, 215 pages, on 5 CD’s.  Don DeLillo wrote these stories over the course of 4 decades, so there is no story thread connecting them, which I didn’t know going in but quickly figured out.  The first story, “Creation,” took a turn that was so abrupt that I twice backed up to an earlier

This is a 548-page novel which was unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace’s death in 2008.  I could have a go at writing about it from several different angles, but I think it may be most interesting to address the publication of such a work.  I felt a bit queasy about reading something

  I photographed this book on white sheets so you can see that this copy of ‘Novel on Yellow Paper’ which was printed in 1982 and acquired by the Dallas Public Library in 1983 is on now yellowing paper!  Love that kind of thing.  This book was written by Stevie Smith in 1936 after her

I ordered erica kaufman’s book of poetry, INSTANT CLASSIC, from Small Press Distribution rather than the AMAZONIAN on the theory that my order could benefit this not-for-profit organization and better support the poet.  Imagine my surprise when the book arrived with a bonus book of “anecdotal descriptions” of the life of Ted Berrigan, poet, editor

Finished reading this on Wednesday, Day 10.  81 pages of 109 read during the challenge.  Easy, LOL reading.  Roz Chast is a long-time cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine.  I love her style, the way she thinks, the way she prints (the book is entirely handwritten) and the way she draws.  This book began life

Finished reading this on Tuesday evening of Day 9.  295 pages of 440 read during the challenge.  It was so hard to close the book.  Clunk.  You know how it is when you don’t want to leave the world an author has created.  That was my experience with this one.  I lived there from 1888

Dear readers, I am so much appreciating your posts.  It’s a wonderful thing to share books & lives, too. I’ve been concentrating on my Wendell Berry book, That Distant Land, which I was 145 pages into at the start of the challenge and at the end of yesterday reached Page 360.  So, whoo-hoo, 5 whole

I just want to say that I’ve quickly realized that the reading I’m doing for this purpose is different.  I’m reading fiction from Wendell Berry and David Foster Wallace at the same time, because DFW is in my car’s CD player and, without trying to, am noticing similarities and differences.  I would not have thought

My stack.  

Hello, everyone.  I am looking forward to participating in my first reading challenge with all of you, some of whom I know from ModPo.  I live in the Dallas area with a current stack of books totaling some 3,500 pages (just summed them up) that I’m looking forward to reading.  I hope to reach the