February 22, 2017

Why do I always have to be reading at least 4 books at a time?  Not sure. I seem to need the variety. Or, maybe it’s my inability to pay attention long enough to any one book or genre. Or, maybe it’s because I was an English major who had to be reading multiple books as an undergraduate, so it’s a habit I continued. Not only do I juggle multiple genres, I like having them in multiple formats. I need to have one audiobook, at least one Kindle book, and a few in print.

Anyway, at the moment, I’m juggling a few non-fiction books, one fiction and an assortment of poetry volumes Here’s the list, it’s more than 4 at the moment:

• 2 books about dogs – Dognition, by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods; Pit Bull, by Bronwyn Dickey is partially read by I am trying to finish the other first; In the Company of Animals, James Serpell is in that pile too
• All About Love, bell hooks;
• Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear on my Kindle;
• Stephen Prothero’s Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections): The Battles That Define America from Jefferson’s Heresies to Gay Marriage in audio; with another audio book in progress, by Michael Lewis,

  The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

• What Blooms in Winter Maria Mazziotti Gillan poetry;
• The Beauty, Jane Hirshfield, poetry;
• Essay type books to get to are Life Breaks In, Mary Cappello; The Adventures of Form and Content, Albert Goldbarth; AND Upstream, selected essays of Mary Oliver is also on my Kindle.

Too much? Oh well, maybe so. But to push me to actually finish these, I’m making this list. The plan is to revisit it with a progress report.