A bit of an odd reading year. Productive, but with most books occupying an uncomfortable middle place between research and pleasure (novels picked up for pleasure flagged as they were read; research works less relevant than I once thought as the manuscript moved along), maybe the inevitable result of being in the middle of a draft. The books I wound up enjoying the most, I think, were those that stood reassuringly in one camp or the other. Some old, others just published or about to be. I don’t have too much time to say much about them here.
2023 in Reading
2023 in Reading
2023 in Reading
A bit of an odd reading year. Productive, but with most books occupying an uncomfortable middle place between research and pleasure (novels picked up for pleasure flagged as they were read; research works less relevant than I once thought as the manuscript moved along), maybe the inevitable result of being in the middle of a draft. The books I wound up enjoying the most, I think, were those that stood reassuringly in one camp or the other. Some old, others just published or about to be. I don’t have too much time to say much about them here.