I’m never sure how long I’ll have a feature on the website.
I started popping in the title of whatever text I was reading at the moment, and then I thought, a running list of whatever it is that I’ve read this week, this month, in book form, at least, the novels of merit, the texts that are worth it.
I’ve had as many as five or six novels going at one time, and I’ve had as few as one. Usually, at the very least, there will be one going at any given time. Plus I use my own reference library from time to time, for history and lit crit & Shakespeare theory.
What it amounts to, I get tired of typing in a new title each time I pick up a book. In some cases, I put the book back down, too, because I’m not in a head space that the text rides well with me. To me, that’s the beauty of the printed word, I can go back and reference it as need be.
Pick it up, interact, put it down, come back later. Or not, in some cases.
I really enjoy certain forms of British comedy. Droll, dry as the West Texas Sand (Monahan’s Sand Dunes come to mind, on a day in July), usually with a few high-blown lit allusions and some insider British comedy.
I’ve got a whole shelf full of the stuff. I enjoyed one series, a trilogy in five or six books at this point, by one author. His stuff usually tickles me. Hard to get here in the States. I picked up a couple of copies of his latest work last time I was in the UK, and I’m just now getting around to reading one of them. Got one left after this. Perfect for a “Mercury is moving backwards” period. Like right now.
When I picked the book up this time, I found that I’d read the first chapter or two, probably last fall, and the book didn’t get up and read, then. But it does now.
Which is why a reading list might be a little suspect.
For now, the “currently reading” list is linked from the left-hand bar.
Unrelated:
Despite the cold weather, not setting foot outside until the sun was well up in the sky, I managed to make it a whole day without wearing footwear. All depends on how one ranks and rates success, whether that measure is by money earned, hits on a web page, number of deals closed, the number of fish caught (and hopefully released), or, in my case, a whole day without having to wear shoes. I was hard at work, deep in production mode, getting material ready for this coming week.
