Here's how I define summer: long weekend to long weekend. Memorial Day Saturday through Labor Day Monday, 24 May 2025 through 1 September 2025. Summer is not my favorite season. I do not suffer humidity gladly, so it has always had something of a to-be-endured vibe for me. This summer in Minneapolis started with an … Continue reading What I read in summer 2025
Tag: fiction
Last Three Books Finished, 2025
Last three books I finished. Monsters by Claire Dederer was recommended by a friend. In typical fashion, I nabbed it in hardcover but waited so long to read it that it was out in paperback. Between my Too Many Book Groups, I snuck it in. It grew from a piece Dederer did for The Paris … Continue reading Last Three Books Finished, 2025
Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
I recently completed a re-read of Dorothy L. Sayer’s Wimsey novels and decided to continue with Thrones, Dominations, which Sayers began, referred to in her letters many times, but never completed. After her death in 1957, she left behind some handwritten notes about the book, as well as a 179-page handwritten manuscript. There was an … Continue reading Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
My 2024 in Books
Hello, friends and readers! It's taken me a month to crunch the numbers and titles for what I read in 2024, a very good year in books. I read 104 books, averaging 2 a week. 49 fiction, 20 nonfiction, 15 poetry, 18 graphic novels, and 2 audio books. 70 women authors, 28 male, 2 trans … Continue reading My 2024 in Books
Friday Reads
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante with #NYRBWomen25 Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. LeGuin for craft. Where I Live by Maxine Kumin for poetry Decca: the Letters of Jessica Mitford in the nightstand for a few pages before bed. (And maybe some in the morning) What are you reading; what … Continue reading Friday Reads
September 2024 Books
Ha, ha, ha, past self. Weren't you cute, feeling smug at writing about August books before September ended, and thinking "I'm catching up!" That was the first heady flush of a writer parent with an empty nest; it didn't last long. (Because, reasons, which I will probably write about later, which involved writing a Paper … Continue reading September 2024 Books
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers, Part II, “The Legal Problem”
I'll save you some time and trouble. The gist, laid out in chapter XIV "Sharp Quillets of the Law," concerns a new-at-the-time law: if a person died without a will after 31 December 1925, the estate went to the next of kin with emphasis on the vagaries of the word "issue." In absence of "issue" … Continue reading Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers, Part II, “The Legal Problem”
March 2024 Books
I managed to finish six books in March; three were quick reads and three had more heft, both in page count and subject matter. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg. I really savored this strange book. Limburg, an autistic writer and mother, structures her book as letters addressed to … Continue reading March 2024 Books
Clouds of Witness ch 4-7
Hello! Am I talking to myself? Is anyone reading this or listening? Does anyone care? No matter. I'm reading. And I care deeply. My experience of the Sayers mysteries, having read them all once, is that as a writer, Dorothy set herself a challenge, and then wrote the book to meet the challenge. In Whose … Continue reading Clouds of Witness ch 4-7
Whose Body? Chapter 7–9
Welcome back to the third week of the readalong of Dorothy L. Sayers's Whose Body? For the first time I will be writing this without any pressing deadline or big event the next day, so we'll see if that makes this week's recap better or worse. First, I will address an omission from last week's … Continue reading Whose Body? Chapter 7–9
K.J. Boldon 