I'm excluding the administrators' official bookshelves, properly arranged and there to impress visitors. I suppose I'd include professors' bookshelves, because there are favorite books there, books that have long histories of research or teaching, though many of them are free textbook copies or books that have been forgotten. I'm primarily referring to personal bookshelves.
So I guess you can tell something about me this year by the books I've read. I'd lost track of the books I'd read this past year, as fall seemed to buzz by, and a feared I'd not made my goal of a book a month. But when I started gathering them up for this post, I was surprised, with 11 more.
In August I'd completed two books, the eighth and ninth of the year. Thus the year's total is more than 20.
So what does this list tell you?
- Non-Fiction:
2. The Blue Zones, Dan Buettner--about areas of the earth where there are an unusually large number of people in their 90s and 100s.
- Spiritual:
- Poetry (I'm working on a story about poetry in Oklahoma, and find it difficult to write about poets without reading their books):
8. Nocturnes and Sometimes Even I, Carl Sennhenn
- Self help(?):
- Fiction:
- Writing:
- Uncompleted (Probably never to be completed):
2. Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch, Constance Hale, about verbs.
- Underway
2. Misplaced, to my chagrin, maybe disappeared is better, first edition gift from son Vance, All the Little Things, fiction by Wallace Stegner. I began it, and laid it down and cannot find it.
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