aI heard in a YouTube video I was showing to my class that The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was the only book that had made the narrator vomit I instantly thought hmm that is quite a reaction, I should read that! The Jungle is one of those rare gems written so well and with such
Ruby, By Cynthia Bond is the OneBook at my college this year. If you aren’t familiar with the concept let me explain. OneBook is a project where communities, Universities, colleges, and even cities, select one book to be read by members that year. Readers get the benefit of knowing others are reading along, it provides
After about the first fifty pages or so of Deborah Nelson’s Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil, I realized that my reading had slowed significantly, not just because the pages are very long and the typeface is very small, but also because of Nelson’s dense, carefully calibrated sentences that hold so much information
Last week we had our monthly reading group at the gallery. This time instead of having a lengthy read, we did a “close read” of Octavia Butler’s short story “Bloodchild”. This was my first time reading Octavia Butler and I’m not typically one to read Sci-Fi. This story, however, as one of the discussion groups
Just thought I’d share a poem written by Hettie Jones, which appears in the book I’ve been reading: Women of the Beat Generation. Hettie, who was born in 1934, “made a choice to leave behind comfortable Long Island and the fifties’ ideal of a cookie-cutter marriage when she went to a women’s college…explored the creative
Funny enough, I could not find the cover of my edition online! So here is a crappy photo of it. All the other covers I see do not have illustrations at all really– more just designs. I feel lucky to have this one, since the cover sums up the story– the title, Between the Acts, just
This is an incredibly important book. I have actually been waiting for it to come out for months. I was about a week away from it’s release in print, and could not wait, so I ordered it on my Kindle. As a person who suffers from a certain level of toxic stress, I have always
When I posted my pages read to my spreadsheet today, I was surprised to see that I had broken the 2,018 page mark. I hadn’t been watching the “Total” column. The audiobooks have made all the difference. I’ve picked up ‘Women of the Beat Generation’ again and am liking it better, now that I’m into
Another book not in my original stack to read. I came across yet another recommendation to read it, so I thought it was time. “Therefore, the color of organisms and objects is dictated by the color of the reflected light. And in the case of leaves on trees, this color is green. But why don’t
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
Seasonal Reading 