February 2010

And here is the obligatory Stuff I’ve Been Reading post.  It feels like I haven’t been reading much because this list has five fewer books than January, but I’ve also been back in school and reading a whole lot of short fiction outside of collections, as well as articles.  You’ll notice from the following how many books are for classes.

1. Katherine Mansfield’s Selected Short Stories by Katherine Mansfield (for Brit lit)
2. The Second Coming by Walker Percy (for form & theory)
3. Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber (for research)
4. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (for fun)
5. Howards End by E. M. Forster (for Brit lit)
6. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (for form & theory)
7. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence, abandoned p. 112 (for Brit lit)
8. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin (for fun)
9. Little Kingdoms by Steven Millhauser (for research)
10. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (for form & theory)
11. Modernist Fiction by Randall Stevenson (nonfiction for Brit lit)
12. Severance by Robert Olen Butler (for form & theory)

My favorite book this month was, predictably, The Thief plus The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, but probably, truth be told, The Thief.  I’ll be rereading the next two in that series to prepare for book four, which is coming out at the end of March.  My least favorite was Sons and Lovers, which I found so unpalatable that I couldn’t even finish.

I hope that with Spring Break coming up next month the March 2010 list will see far more books for pleasure on it.