For the first time in many years, it looks like I will not hit my annual reading goal (52)--and that's okay. It has been a rough year at times, and I've turned more to television shows and movies than to books. That's okay. Maybe next year I will turn more to books or maybe I can start writing more about the TV I've been watching (Netflix's Wednesday was everything I could have hoped for). I have still read some truly excellent books this year, which I will post about soon, and I've spent some time reading and savoring books of poetry, nonfiction, or literary magazines over longer periods of time. I'll update this list if I do manage to finish anything else before the new year.
Books Read This Month
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- Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins--I enjoy Collins' poetry, which tends to be accessible and also center on a lot of wordplay, although a few of these did not age well. Collins is an older poet whose gender essentialism makes it to the forefront in a few poems and whose poem about undressing Emily Dickinson made me uncomfortable (it's meant to be a metaphor for dissecting her poetry, but in the #MeToo era, it comes off--not great). Still, his visceral descriptions, and mastery of the poetic twist are worth reading in most of these, and I would recommend it to fellow poetry fans or people looking to get into poetry.
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