This is a sticky post to record what I've read and watched in 2013. The ones in pink are not for the first time.
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I had never read To Kill a Mockingbird but became intrigued by the Harper Lee character from watching Capote and especially Infamous. So I started the book. Then Danny rented the movie while I was only halfway through. It was an excuse to sit up until 4:30 this morning finishing it. This evening we watched the movie ( Read more... )

A sticky post to record what I've read and watched in 2012; the ones in pink are not for the first time.

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My back has siezed up, condemning me to a day in bed. No matter, it's a great excuse to plough through Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Lacuna. It is historical fiction about the artist couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera around the time they harboured Leon Trotsky in their home (although I'm only one-third of the way through, so I can't tell where ( Read more... )

In response to my post about freelancing, missprune asked what about weaving? because I've been raving about that recently, too. The answer is, "I probably can't write without weaving."

Few books have influenced me more than Carol Lloyd's Creating a Life Worth Living: A practical course in career design for artists, innovators, and others aspiring to a ( Read more... )

The book that most changed my perspective on life and the world last year was Rambunctious Garden: Saving nature in a post-wild world by Emma Marris (2011). Change is natural and inevitable, she argues. Our traditional strategy of securing ecological stability through preservation is usually pointless. To fight climate change and the natural ( Read more... )

A sticky post to record what I've read and watched in 2011 (idea ganked from daoi). The ones in pink are ones I had read or viewed previously.

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Home with a cold this afternoon I curled up in front of the gas fireplace and finished reading Death of a River Guide, the first novel by Richard Flanagan, which I've been savouring over lunch hours for the past few weeks. It came as a housewarming gift from smileyfish along with two boxes of blended tea. Book and beverage are redolent of her home in ( Read more... )

In the category of really weird and impossible coincidences, my writing buddy Sarah and I just finished reading the same book by Miranda July. It's not even a new one people are talking about. In fact I had never heard of July and was unaware I owned the book until I found it on my shelf last week and needed something to read. I must have won it as ( Read more... )

After Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories (1986) by Anne Beattie, No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories (2007) by Miranda July was refreshingly off-the-wall. It was difficult to read in it's own way: bitingly satirical of the small tragedies and distortions we put ourselves through in seeking and fleeing genuine intimacy. The characters are ( Read more... )