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Here’s what I’ve been reading this year, where “reading” sometimes means “listening to on Audible because sitting down and actually reading can be an awful lot of trouble.”

What are you reading… or “reading,” as it were?

(Other than 31 Down, obviously.)

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Comments

  1. I did finally get around to reading 31 Down this month and was not disappointed! (I immediately read it again. And wish I’d asked you to sign it.)

    My favorite book of the year so far (of >30) is All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva.

    • Hm! I haven’t been in the habit of reading much fiction (as the sampling above suggests), but I’ll have to give that Sachdeva collection a look.

      Glad you enjoyed my little booklet, or whatever it is.

      • My non-fiction standouts would all be a departure from your themes above as well: Not That Bad (edited by Roxane Gay); Eating on the Wild Side (Jo Robinson); and the last two Naomi Klein publications. Last year’s favorite non-fiction included An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Dunbar-Ortiz); The Little Book of Hygge (Wiking); Half the Sky (Kristof & WuDunn); The Sexual Politics of Meat (Adams); and Hunger (Gay). I’m definitely adding a few from your list above to my reading list!

        • I still have The Sexual Politics of Meat on my reading list from last time you mentioned it. Your food-related books reminded me that I started off this year reading Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss (it was good), so I added that and one other above.

  2. Let’s see…. Finishing a chapbook on the history of the Riverside press which was in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1852 until 1971. Also reading a book of letters between Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer. I need to finish reading Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints; The Carved Line: Block Printing in New Mexico; a biography of Japanese printmaker Yoshijiro Urushibara; Seven Masters: 20th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Wells Collection; The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration by Jack Hillier; Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier…at least there seems to be a theme this summer. I may re-read It Can’t happen Here by Sinclair Lewis to be reminded that it is happening here.