Oh man, I am really bad at this blog thing. Also possibly really bad at this book-a-week thing. My last post was 11 weeks, and not nearly...

1. It is perhaps unsurprising that reading a book like Maggie Nelson's Bluets would make one start seeing blue. But that's too simple....

Two books in one for this post - Molly McCully Brown's The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, and Roald Dahl's...

Switching gears completely, I read an old novella by an old white male giant of literature. It's one of those books I "should" have read...

Here goes. Book/week 1 of 52. This isn't, or I don't intend this to be anyway, a review, per se. I'm not a critic, not a real book...

Apparently there's a twitter thing where people are reading one poetry book a day during August. That seems all sorts of wrong to me. Not...

Seeing as it's already a week into the new year, and I've just received my first rejection of 2018 (from The New Yorker - surprise!) it...

It's July 4th and I've just finished helping my almost 10-year-old (unofficial) stepson bake a rhubarb berry crumble, using rhubarb from...

It's confession time (one should do that before Lent is over, if one is doing this Lenten sacrifice thing, right?). I don't really read...

Catholics have this thing called Lent. Yes, yes, I know, they’re not the only ones, but they do it up like nobody else, actually giving...