What I’ve read, am reading and/or would like to read

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For several months, I’ve had a reading blog on another network. While I liked the format, and the themes there, I felt like I was the only one contributing to different groups and not receiving any feedback. So after some thought, I canceled my account there, which also deleted my blog, and started this blog. As I was doing there, I will review books I’m reading as well as highlight favorites of books I’ve read over the years and look ahead to what books I might read next.

So far this year, I’ve read, in order:

1. Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer
2. Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
3. Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
4. Rumspringa: To Be Or Not To Be Amish by Tom Schachtman
5. Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean Pierre de Caussade
6. Shakespeare: The World As Stage by Bill Bryson
7. Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
8. Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
9. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
10. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
11. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
12. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
13. Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
14. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
15. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight by Jimmy Breslin
16. An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
17. World War Z by Max Brooks
18. Big Trouble by Dave Barry
19. Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton
20. The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez
21. Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano
22. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

On my shelf:

1. Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death by M.C. Beaton
2. The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
3. The Emotional Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff
4. Living Flame of Love by St. John of the Cross
5. Red Bird by Mary Oliver (poems)
6. Sabbaths by Wendell Berry (poems)
7. The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (poems)
8. 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Ordinary Times, edited by Billy Collins

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