Husband vs. Wife

Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson

Moominpoppa at Sea by Tove Jansson -I had important, brilliant world-changing notes written on the bookmark.  I finished the book this mor...

The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro -Another book sale pickup, begun randomly one night a few weeks ago. If I could go back and give m...

The Watcher and other stories by Italo Calvino

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster

Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould

Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson - I hope to write about this when I get some more time.

Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction To the Age of Romanticism by Jacque Barzun

Little Lulu Vol. 23 -I dunno if I've been keeping track of these on this blog, but yeah I've read them all, up until vol. 23, as ha...

The Best American Short Stories 1998 ed. Garrison Keillor - I felt like reading the kind of stories I figured would be in here. I was right!...

A Jacques Barzun Reader - Got this for a buck.  Loved reading it, a nice hardcover. The straightforward and sensible essay "Criticism: ...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Weathercraft by Jim Woodring -3x Logicomix by various -I really hated this, but forced myself to finis...

The Kat Who Walked In Beauty by Geo. Herriman -Read 2 pages a day, every so often, for 6+ months to get through this.  I was very inspired...

Exemplary Tales of Love (Novelas ejemplares y amorosas) by María de Zayas y Sotomayor Lazarillo de Tormes (anonymous) Novelas ejemplares por...

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt - After the first 50 pages it seemed pretty good, but I decided to stop.  Complicated fe...

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner -A run-through of the big media panics of the past few...

Educating the Reflective Practitioner by Donald A Schon. "In a climate of mystery and mastery, undiscussability and indescribability...

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker

The Design of Design Essays from a Computer Scientist Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Portraits from Memory and other essays by Bertrand Russell

On Poetic Imagination and Reverie by Gaston Bachelard "To say that the poetic image is independent of causality is to make a rather ...

Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand -Pragmatic and optimistic and terrifying, and well-written, I thought.  Sometimes when I'm sea...

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Starting Point 1979 - 1996 Hayao Miyazaki -collection of interviews and lectures and articles, by the maker of my favorite movies (so far)...

The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball -Couldn't get into this. I love meta-, but here there's too much archness/cuteness for me. May...

The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa (Extraordinary Classics) -finally finished this after years (?) of off and on reading.  It seems lik...

33 1/3 - Another Green World - not much new to me, but easier to read than Aja or DNation Time by Eva Hoffman -small books, big ideas serie...

33 1/3 Series: Aja Daydream Nation -DNation not recommended, crazy writing.  Aja for chord nerds only, and session musician imdb-ing.

Gave up on Madame Bovary 1/3 through!  Complicated feelings about it, respeck, but couldn't take enough pleasure in it to keep going.  M...

The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson -Good pop science/history, short, but a lot packed in here, good ideas.  I probably should read hi...

When It Changed Leak Pseudo Scandal Oy The Real Leak Hansen Krugman re: Hansen

On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno by David Sheppard -disappointed in this, but dutifully finished. Would have liked mo...

Reading a lot, as always, but not finishing anything.

Entre Parentesis La Pista de Hielo Putas Asesinas Una Novelita Lumpen por Roberto Bola ño Eleven Kinds of Lonelines by Richard Yates Anton C...

Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet by Oliver Morton -Really enjoyed this.

Little Lulu Vol:19 by John Stanley et.al Bourbon Island 1730 by Lewis Trondheim and Olivier Appollodorus

On Deep History and the Brain by Daniel Lord Smail

The Desire of My Eyes: the Life and Work of John Ruskin by Wolfgang Kemp

Herbie Vol. 2 Monologues for Calculating the Density of Black Holes by Andrew Nelson

Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik Herbie Vol. 1 and 2 -- skimmed/didn't finish A Biographer's Notebook by Hector Bolitho (good, funny) ...

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis -I can only recommend the first 3 novellas, which I really enjoyed...but conside...

(These are the interesting and noteworthy articles and essays I read this month.) March (open) The Last Book Party Gideon Lewis-Kraus Invisi...

Six Walks in the Fictional Woods by Umberto Eco Last Evenings on Earth and By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño The Dubliners and Portrai...

Difficult Loves and Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino The New Sun by Taro Tashima

I'm going to start keeping track of noteworthy articles, essays, and longer blog posts I read on month-by-month basis. I'll add to ...

The Dolphin Reader ed. Douglas Hunt -This is 1000+ pages, an anthology textbook of essays, 1986 edition. There are several editions of this...

Wolf Whistle and Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan

Savage Detectives (in English), Amulet, and Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño The All Girl Football Team by Lewis Nordan