Continuing to read this some nights with my son.

2024-07-10

Started reading the Wild Robot with Will tonight.

We started reading Sheine Lende the night before last but it was making Will feel quite anxious and so wasn’t a good bedtime read.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Wild Robot

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Read aloud with my son at bedtime some nights. We both really enjoyed it; hope for more with these characters and/or in this world.

Previously read this myself a couple years ago - one of my favorites of recent years.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: A Snake Falls to Earth

Undeniable, probably book of the year. I have thoughts that I should articulate better, if I get brave.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Louder Than Hunger

Read this back to front, basically two times, then started looking up the websites and other poems and writings of many of the poets here.

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Finished reading Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension 11:17pm

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Standalone post link: Reading Log: Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension

2024-07-19 - 51%

2024-07-11

Started reading this the other night with my son but it was too harrowing for him as a bedtime read, so I’ve just been continuing on my own.

2024-07-13 - 31%

So far it stays somewhat creepy throughout, with a mysterious vibe and shadow of death over everything that happens, so for the sake of my son’s restfulness it was a good call to not continue with it in that venue. We really loved A Snake Falls to Earth and I had also read Elatsoe previously. He was interested in trying Elatsoe but we decided to try this prequel first. I’m not sure if we would encounter the same issues with Elatsoe; I don’t remember it being too suspenseful (at least not in the “threat to small children” and “missing mother” elements which Sheine Lende opens with), but it does have a murder mystery element, vampires, and some creepiness. Maybe he’ll come back to this later in another way?

If there was a sequel or prequel to A Snake Falls to Earth he would read it in a second. I for one look forward to a story of the mockingbird’s chaotic misadventures on Earth, culminating with taking down the Nightmare?

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Sheine Lende

Finally starting a deep dive back into Kafka.

Intend to read most of his works in roughly the order they were written, so I’m reading the 1912-1913 works in this anthology and then I will jump out of this to read Amerika, then probably jump back into this, then read The Trial, possibly unpublished stuff like Investigations of a Dog, and so forth. Kafka stories blew my mind when I was in high school; we’ll see what happens as a 44 year old.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Metamorphosis and Other Stories

These were nice.

Read:

• My Words
• What Color Is Night?
• Nothing Ever Happens on a Gray Day
• What Sound Is Morning?

I meant to read every book by Grant Snider at this time (had them all from the library) but I didn’t get that far. Another time. Poetry Comics, tho.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: Grant Snider Picture Books

Wasn’t quite as cohesive as I was hoping, but I don’t know that it intended to be.

Impulse-ordered copies of I think almost all of her other collections to read soon; used copies from 3rd-party amazon sellers because I’m an evil cheapskate. I had them checked out from the library and they were long overdue, needed to return them, so that was a step up towards paying my share.

Standalone post link: Reading Log: The Octopus Museum