Finished reading: Today I Learned It Was You by Ed Riche. Nowhere near as funny as Rare Birds, unfortunately, but it wasn't bad. The thing is, I love Riche's writing, and he has such a way of painting a wide variety of characters, from many different walks of life, and of different personalities, all sketched out very realistically. These people ( Read more... )

Finished reading: Frogs in the Rain Barrel by Sally Ito. After some of the previous volumes I've read through by other poets, this one was kind of a balm for my mind - while not all of her work clicked with me, Ito's work is close to my taste. It has a simple elegance, a sort of... just-right-ness, with lots of imagery that is vivid but not florid ( Read more... )

Brrr, it sure was cold today. -33C all through the afternoon. I went out anyway, but I must admit, I had second-thoughts for a while there. Man, I can hardly wait for spring. It will be so nice to go out without having to put on a million layers ( Read more... )

Finished reading: The Quiet by Anne-Marie Turza. Her style of poetry is not overall 100% to my taste (I won't be buying this volume) but she does have a lovely way with regard to turns of phrase and imagery. This volume contains a good deal of prose-poetry, which is not everyone's cup of tea, and it also contains some very minimalistic stuff, which ( Read more... )

☆ Sometimes, you know, I have these moments where I'm reading something, and I find myself thinking, "This is very well-written, but I don't like it". That's how I feel reading through undercurrent by Rita Wong. Her poetry is very well-written, but... not to my taste. And it's frustrating, because I don't like starting books and not finishing them ( Read more... )

☆ Nice little things: Coffee with egg nog in it. Cookies with pistachio and fig. Having a moment to sit down and paint my nails for the first time in two weeks. <3 Feels good ( Read more... )

Finished reading as if by E D Blodgett... I'm unsure whether to call it one long poem in three sections, or three long poems, or a bunch of untitled poems that all link together. I guess it's all three at once. It might be worth taking a look at if one can get one's hands on it; I found it lovely, though best read in pieces ( Read more... )

I haven't done a Reading Wednesday in a while, so... here's what I've been reading lately:

Currently reading:

Packing For Mars by Mary Roach. Yes, still. It's going slowly, but I still do enjoy it. The only thing stopping me from breezing through it more quickly is the fact that I'm reading it electronically. Should have seen if the library had a ( Read more... )

☆ So, apparently a fossilized dinosaur brain exists in the world. I think that's pretty cool.

☆ Today, I worked on a fic that isn't for an exchange for the first time in quite a while, and it felt so good. (More on that later, maybe.) Think I needed a little break from exchange fic, ahaha. But soon we'll get into it again. :D ( Read more... )

☆ Watched the second episode of Yuri on Ice today. Still enjoying it! It was nice to see more of Yurio - and man am I ever glad that he has a canon nickname, heh, otherwise it'd get a little confusing (two guys named Yuri in the same show...) You know, I hadn't really given it much thought before, but I really appreciate that Victor is close to my ( Read more... )