Recent Reading

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DECEMBER

• The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan (380 pp.)
  first line (of the "editor's preface"): "I have visited the old Wight Farm and its 'red tree,' there where the house squats ancient and neglected below the bogs that lie at the southern edge of Ramswool Pond."
  first line (of the first chapter): "7 May 2008 (Wednesday, 9:38 a.m.) / I'm almost awake now, starting in on my second cup of coffee, sitting here at the kitchen table, and writing this in the spiral-bound notebook I purchased down in Coventry, a little over a week ago."