A Writer’s Road: What I Read in 2020

What a year. I’ve documented a lot of it in this blog, but now it’s time to write an annual post which has nothing whatsoever to do with the pandemic (ostensibly), namely my list of what I read during the year. The list comes with its usual caveat that...

A Writer’s Road: Reading in the Time of Corona

A Shelf of Trollopes I have to be careful with what I read right now. The news, social media, all the incoming information and non-information threatens to overwhelm me. We all react differently to the stressful situation we find ourselves in. Some people need to know...

A Writer’ Road: What I Read in 2019

I love year-end lists. I read them even if I’m not interested in the subject, just for the wonder of it, like The Year in Potatoes, or Messiest Celebrity Break-Ups of 2019. So I look forward to my annual list of what I read each year. I hope you’ll find it...

What I Read This Year: 2018

Well, let’s face it. 2018 was a pretty terrible year in lots of ways. There were two interesting results of it all, though. First, I barely did any creative writing. Yes, I wrote magazine articles, fundraising proposals, administrative memos, thousands of...
The Reading Hole

The Reading Hole

I find myself in the weird position of having finished reading my latest book, and also being at the bottom of my ‘To Be Read’ pile. What to do? There are so many new(ish) books I could move on to, of course. But it dawned on me that maybe this is a good...