Ah, right! Yes, that’s better! 
Yes. Had to for the Novel Ph.D exam. It’s . . . OK? It helps if you know Irish myth. Lots of really bad multilingual puns. I wish it were a third of its size; it’s far too long.
The Little Prince - because it is always worth reading again
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman - poetry
Maus by Art Spiegelman, graphic novel - I’m trying to read at least one banned book every year
My favorite book from last year is Black Boy Joy - edited by Kwame Mbalia - 17 short stories (not a banned book, just delightful)
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I’ve never been able to locate a copy of Vol 1 to buy. It’s a compendium of papers from a conference in 1989 and was published in 1990.
Vol 2 is a subset of those papers and is better than nothing. I lucked into my copy used for less than $100 (most start at about $135 or higher depending on condition) If you ever find Vol 1 let me know! actually maybe it’s time to do another search on e-bay or something…
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I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for (it says 242 pages and publication date December 1, 1990, but might really be volume 2 mislabeled) or if this is a fair price. You may want to investigate before neonate does . . .
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It’s a mislabeled copy of Vol 2. But THANKS for looking! Much Appreciated.
Have you tried contacting the author, Lawrence Alderson? Within the last few years he has published: Google Books
Hopefully he’s still with us.
Bold approach. I always read a book from beginning to end, at least the first time through. 
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Your comment made me laugh 
I started rearranging my bookshelves last night (it wasn’t planned, one thing just lead to another) and have mostly come to the conclusion that I might need to stop buying books for a while and read some of what I have.
This thread isn’t helping 
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The Collapse of Parenting is also on my shortlist along with Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters after I finish Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin (re-read).
I usually go through a lot of books and like to have some good fiction when I’m just unwinding or taking a walk. I’ll get physical ebooks for the more technical stuff or self-help-type books I want to take notes on.
Recently Finished:
- Night Angel Series by Brent Weeks
- The Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks
- The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Shortlist:
- The Collapse of Parenting by Leonard Sax
- Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker
- Ultralearning by Scott Young
- Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
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My favorite book I’m currently reading is Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz.
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Digital makes buying books too easy. For several years when I heard about a book I thought might be interesting, I would buy it. Then I would get busy and not read it. According to Audible and Kindle, I have 100+ I haven’t started.
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I just discovered, “Blood in the Machine” by Brian Merchant and it jumped to the top of the queue. I really need to stop reading book reviews when I have 30+ books in my unread pile.
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BTDT. I finally learned to just send the kindle sample to my account. I read the samples and then add them to my kindle wish list.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I have over 300 samples that I haven’t even vetted and over 130 in the wish list. I don’t even want to know how many I’ve purchased but not read yet.
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I sympathise…
I wasn’t actually joking in my previous post about how many unread books I have on the Kindle. I have over 700 in total – many of them free, and there are some samples, but far too many were purchased – and a couple of weeks ago I went through them and categorised them. There are currently 224 that I still would like to read at some point – in addition to the 200-odd on the bookshelves that I haven’t quite given up on.
This is the result of suffering chronic Tsundoku for fifty years:
the practice of buying a lot of books and keeping them in a pile because you intend to read them but have not done so yet; also used to refer to the pile itself: (TSUNDOKU | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary)
It’s a ridiculous habit.
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Three books? My, that’s ambitious! For me anyway. I have a list a mile long, and bookcase full of purchases that have gone neglected. I don’t know where the time goes, but I never seem to have time to get back into my old favorite hobby.
I will be getting after this one though. It was a Christmas gift two years ago, and I keep planning to read it, but I don’t follow through. Based on the title though, I should learn to overcome that issue…
I feel almost embarrassed* to admit this but I’m rereading some of the Jack Reacher books.
- they make me feel happy
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Never apologize for what you like to read, especially “comfort” reads. Great swathes of the canon, poetry, prose and drama, were considered “junk” in their creators’ lifetimes.
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