So many great suggestions! I have recently started reading more again (no doubt related to starting to write here, on Substack) and have decided to not buy any more books until I read all the ones I already have and haven't read... May have to review this decision now.
Thank you for such "care-full" (I'm sure there's an actual word for what I mean, can't think of one, using my "I'm not a native" card here...) and thoughtful post. Going back to read more :)
What an amazing post, Jan. Knowing something of your life, I'm so admiring of your finding the time to write so comprehensively, insightfully and with erudition of all these books. Many of them we have in common, though I have yet to read some (I didn't know Cunningham had a new book out; I still think The Hours is his best).
I was delighted to scroll down to poetry and see that you'd featured my River Suite. Thank you. Am very grateful.
I have just bought copies of Wintering and Wrong Norma (the cover is great!), but not read either yet. There are good reasons for this. I have 12 bookcases totally packed with books - poetry, folklore, politics, history, large and expensive photograph books, plus an inordinate amount of novels, mostly science fiction or fantasy, but also romance, gay as well as straight, who-dunnits, and anything in the bookshop that caught my eye.
My latest reading was Tom Cox's Notebook. Then I must finish the non fiction Two for Sorrow and a handful of poetry books, before attacking Dreamsnake, a fantasy that I started at least two years ago but only reached chapter two. That was probably because I picked up another book and just got immersed. I also indulge in Unbound, an expensive habit, but it feels so good to help an author get published. I discovered this bewitching website during the covid lockdown, and it cost me dear. The website that is, not the covid of which I only got a mild dose post vaccination.
I mentioned the 12 bookcases. There is another one, full of music and film, CDs and original vinyl (me being 75, they really are original), plus a few tapes of Yorkshire regional carols, and other unusual items.
I have to admit, the local bookshop really likes me, and even asked for a list of my folklore books. Almost certainly due to the weirdness of some of them.......
So many great suggestions! I have recently started reading more again (no doubt related to starting to write here, on Substack) and have decided to not buy any more books until I read all the ones I already have and haven't read... May have to review this decision now.
Thank you for such "care-full" (I'm sure there's an actual word for what I mean, can't think of one, using my "I'm not a native" card here...) and thoughtful post. Going back to read more :)
What an amazing post, Jan. Knowing something of your life, I'm so admiring of your finding the time to write so comprehensively, insightfully and with erudition of all these books. Many of them we have in common, though I have yet to read some (I didn't know Cunningham had a new book out; I still think The Hours is his best).
I was delighted to scroll down to poetry and see that you'd featured my River Suite. Thank you. Am very grateful.
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I have just bought copies of Wintering and Wrong Norma (the cover is great!), but not read either yet. There are good reasons for this. I have 12 bookcases totally packed with books - poetry, folklore, politics, history, large and expensive photograph books, plus an inordinate amount of novels, mostly science fiction or fantasy, but also romance, gay as well as straight, who-dunnits, and anything in the bookshop that caught my eye.
My latest reading was Tom Cox's Notebook. Then I must finish the non fiction Two for Sorrow and a handful of poetry books, before attacking Dreamsnake, a fantasy that I started at least two years ago but only reached chapter two. That was probably because I picked up another book and just got immersed. I also indulge in Unbound, an expensive habit, but it feels so good to help an author get published. I discovered this bewitching website during the covid lockdown, and it cost me dear. The website that is, not the covid of which I only got a mild dose post vaccination.
I mentioned the 12 bookcases. There is another one, full of music and film, CDs and original vinyl (me being 75, they really are original), plus a few tapes of Yorkshire regional carols, and other unusual items.
I have to admit, the local bookshop really likes me, and even asked for a list of my folklore books. Almost certainly due to the weirdness of some of them.......