Reading back through my notes, I notice that I was hard on these books: this is a fabulous crop of memoirs, and my nitpicking is more about noticing the things that I’m watching for in my own writing than big faults in theirs. I would recommend any of them to a reader interested in the [...]
Archive for February, 2011
my year in memoir, 2010
Posted in year in reading 2010 on February 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
my year in graphic novels/poetry, 2010
Posted in year in reading 2010 on February 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
graphic novels Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell I’m not a good reader of graphic novels, as I may have mentioned. The ones I really like (Fun Home is always the one that comes to mind) I don’t like as much as novels and wish were novels—I finish them in a sitting and want more, [...]
2010 year in reading
Posted in year in reading 2010 on February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s February of 2011, and a good time to do my 2010 Year in Reading wrap-up. There’s so much pressure in December when I’m still trying to finish a handful of books and bouncing around the internet reading everyone else’s lists. Now there is a pleasant calm: no one cares about 2010, the massive traffic [...]
