📚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.

📚Finished Reading: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (first published in 1609).

I’ve been reading one or two of these a day the last few months as part of my larger project to read more poetry in general.

📚Finished Reading: The Nine Tailors (1934), Dorothy Sayers.

This was my first book by Sayers. Delightful, and now I know more about bells than I ever thought I would. FWIW, I guessed the murder weapon.

📚Finished Reading: The Liberated Imagination, Leland Ryken (1998).

Lots of good insights and helpful ways of describing the workings of art on our imaginations and lives. His tastes are quite traditional, I wish he had a more sympathetic eye/ear/pen for modern art and it’s social functioning.

📚 Finished Reading: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison. Absolutely harrowing. Need to read something lighter for the next book (or several), but is there a greater debut novel than this?

📚Finished Reading: A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit. I picked this up at a book sale and it was good bedtime reading. Expansive, nostalgic, very western in its lingering on wide spaces, natural history, and restlessness of belonging. Pairs well with Blue by Joni Mitchell.