📚 Finished Reading: Talk’s Body: A Meditation Between Two Keyboards, David Sudnow.

This is the much more readable follow-up to Ways of the Hand. Full of pithy observations on the connections between music, language, writing, the body, mathematics. A book (most) music lovers would likely enjoy.

📚Finished Reading: Ways of the Hand: The organization of improvised conduct, David Sudnow.

I expect this book would be unbearably tedious to most readers, but it is relevant to a very slim niche of my teaching practice and was exactly the book for me. Thanks @mbattles for the recommendation.

📚Finished reading: The Theological Imagination, Judith Wolfe.

Interesting book. Wolfe is erudite in seemingly every field and wondrously well-read. Her writing is typical of academics, but one wishes the compelling ideas she has were presented in a clearer style.

📚Finished Reading: Constance by Jane Kenyon.

Man, what a collection. One of the best (and most heart-wrenching) I’ve read.

📚 Finished Reading: Foster by Claire Keegan.

I’m just astounded at what she can do in such a short space. Not quite as heavy as Small Things Like These, but a beautifully told story you can read in a sitting or two.

📚Finished reading: Craftland: in search of lost arts and disappearing trades. James Fox.

Just a delightful and fascinating read.

📚 Finished Reading: The Locust Years, Paul J. Pastor.

Good collection. As with most poetry collections, he has a wavelength that is sometimes hard to find. But, there were a number of very good poems and a pretty high average quality.

📚Finished Reading: Against the Machine, Paul Kingsnorth.

A book both enjoyable and disappointing at the same time.

📚 Finished reading: Entries (1994), Wendell Berry.

I’ve read a lot of Berry’s poetry, but I think this is the best collection I’ve found. I expect I’ll write more about it soon.

📚Finished reading: Small Teaching (2nd edition), James M. Lang.

Absolute dynamite. I started this Sunday and used one of the exercises Tuesday, and another Thursday. Many times I stopped to open up a lesson plan or assignment to add ideas that came right from here.