A couple of days ago I finished reading Gravity, The Allure of Distance, by W. Scott Olsen. I bought it a few years ago. It called to me for all the predictable reasons. It’s a paperback. The cover shows an empty highway, a sign for Exit 0, and the kind of big-distance, big-sky terrain that … Continue reading Recent reading: Gravity, by W. Scott Olsen
Category: reading & writing
Get Your Sh*t Together: A (Very Rambling) Book Review
Warning: there is benign & perhaps humorous swearing in this post. Also, this post is not about gardening. Sometime after the Marie Kondo craze began and everyone started eyeing their socks and asking if those socks sparked joy, I encountered Sarah Knight’s The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck. I read it. I … Continue reading Get Your Sh*t Together: A (Very Rambling) Book Review
I'm about halfway through reading Discontent and Its Civilizations, by Mohsin Hamid, and already I want to go right out and read all the other books he mentions. Also, I want to figure out how to write like this. This is a hell of a book, in the best way!
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