Finishing School by Muriel Spark
This final ‘novel’ plays off themes and ideas that are found in many of Spark’s earlier works. From ‘The Comforters’ there is a character struggling with controlling their story from the prying eyes of others. This also comes up in ‘Loitering with Intent’. Having read…
2021 Top Ten Reading Experiences
2021 is the year I wrote poetry, more than seventy poems, several long ones and also a series of twenty connected poems that is still underway. I began the year focused on my novel and I end it obsessed with poetry; reading and writing it….
100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings
I am always attracted to artists that make my head buzz even as I can’t ground myself in their work; people like Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Archile Gorky. I haven’t taken such risks with poetry yet until e.e. summing and I am so glad I…
Capitalist Realism; Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher
I am tired at how stuck we are in our crappy economic system and we just accept it like the weather or now increasingly like the climate we don’t bother to protect. The problem isn’t that there isn’t an alternative to capitalism, it is that…
The Rediscovery of the Mind by John R. Searle
Early in this book the following quote forced its way on my whiteboard. “That an object has a certain mass is an intrinsic aspect of the object. That the object is a bathtub exits only in relation to observers who assign that function.” In essence,…
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Confession; I don’t know how this ended up on my reading list but it is very short and there have been other books that I just trusted the fates with so I just made the plunge. As I read a voice in my head kept…
Middlemarch by George Eliot
I read Middlemarch many years ago and decided that it was time to reread it now as I am so much older with so much more life experience. In my memory of reading Middlemarch, Dorothea’s disappointment at her marriage to Casaubon loomed very large. I…
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