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
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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
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
November 2024 books
I finished six books last month. Only four are pictured because one was borrowed and one I liked so well I foisted it on a friend right away. And I had to pause in reading two books, because there was not world enough and time. (Having deployed that, I figured I better look up from … Continue reading November 2024 books
K.J. Boldon 