January

Finished
Citizen, Claudia Rankine
All the Single Ladies, Rebecca Traister

February

Started
Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
1968: The Year that Rocked the World, Mark Kurlansky
Glass House, Brian Alexander
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Finished Field Notes from a Catastrophe

I hadn't realized my February reading was so restless. I'm still figuring out how to make reading a more regular part of my life, so that may be part of it-- trying to walk the line between glut and avoidance. Part of it too, surely, is trying to carve out the time for books like Citizen and Between the World and Me, books that have been on my list for a while, books that I start and immediately realize should be read with full attention, and not, say, before bed or on the elliptical at gym, two places where I've done much of my reading over the last year.

I’m currently reading Ten Years in the Tub, a compilation of Nick Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns from The Believer. I’m barreling towards the end of the decade’s worth of columns, 50 pages from the end now, and pushing ahead with this sort of urgency and nervousness, because I’ve set myself the goal of READING MORE and READING AT LEAST ONE BOOK A MONTH and have failed multiple times this year already, and it’s making me nervous.

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