Y’all, I’m not doing too badly on my goal to read for pleasure more in 2021. Admittedly, school hasn’t started back up and I’m sure when I’m knee-deep in obscure 19th-centrury poets and pedagogy in the digital age, I’ll be less-inclined to pick up a good fiction book when I could be staring into space …
My resolution to read more in the new year is going swimmingly so far. It’s the second and I’ve burned through two very good, though very different books. Yesterday, I wrote about Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias. After that book wrecked me, I was skimming listlessly through my past purchases on Kindle trying to find …
I’ve long held that what we do on the first of the year sets the tone for the rest. To that end, I always try to spend the first day of each year reading, writing, moving my body, talking to and kissing my wife, and cuddling with the cat. The first book on my list …
Finnian Burnett 