2023 in Reading

Someone said they had a hunch I went through books “like food,” which is true. “A book a month?” someone suggested. I looked shifty. “A book a week?!”

I had to pull up this list to check.

2022 in Reading

Everything I read in 2022 with next-to-no commentary at all.

2021 in Reading: The Big List

Everything I read in 2021 in a big list. Does what it says on the tin.

A to Z

I’ve been having a hard time reading in 2021, but I did read Ali Smith’s The Accidental and Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist last month, which has me wondering what it would be like to just read an alphabetical list of books over the course of a single year. That’s all.

2020 in Reading: The Big List

The landing outside our bedrooms is tiny—barely big enough for one person to stand alongside the single floor vent that’s supposed to heat the entire upstairs. But! There’s enough wall space for two tall pieces of paper, so that’s where Zina and I have kept our reading lists since 2015. I’ve never really gotten into … Continue reading 2020 in Reading: The Big List

Literary Archipelagos

Last week, in a moment of Peak Bellwood Weakness I signed up for an online class/study group called Literature at Sea: A Brief History of Existence. The facilitator shared something in today’s intro call that I can’t believe nobody sent me when it was released back in July. It’s called An Ocean of Books and … Continue reading Literary Archipelagos