I’m back on track with reading now, hopefully. As you’ll see, Christmas threw a big, and welcome, wrench into my reading list. My last five books, in order of completion: 1: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. It’s my Christmas tradition. This year I put it off until the last moment, and didn’t start...
Questions For The Author
Author Jonathan Franzen, in the essay “On Autobiographical Fiction,” part of his 2012 collection Farther Away, writes that whenever a novelist gives a public talk or reading, he or she is invariably asked four “unpleasant questions.” They are, he writes “apparently the price we have to pay for the pleasure of appearing in public.” The...
(Too-) Good Reads
(Edit: this is a legacy post, from the days when Shoulblog was on WordPress.com. Things have changed a bit, and I no longer have the Goodreads widget discussed in the first paragraph. Instead, I keep a running list of the books I’m reading/have read on this site; to see it, click on “READING” up...