📚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.

📚Finished: King Lear (seeing it next month and wanted a refresher). Not my favorite tragedy, but it certainly is tragic.