Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946) When I embarked on my Spiritual Memoir Challenge this year, I did not expect the first book I chose to read for it to be so ... challenging. It raised a lot of questions for me, and I'm not sure how to express them. I don't want to … Continue reading Spiritual Memoir Review: Autobiography of a Yogi
Literature A new year begins! I devoted a number of posts to reviewing my reading from last year, which was interesting for me, at least. Check them out here: My Life in Books My Year in Nonfiction My Year in Fiction Around the World Update Along with general plans for 2023, I announced a new … Continue reading Month in Review: January 2023
In the last few years, I started writing poetry again. I'd done it in fits and spurts since childhood, but was never really satisfied with my efforts. Then a personal crisis gave me a new impetus, inspiring me to produce one or even two or three poems a day, for several months. I found this … Continue reading A new writing (and publishing) impulse
This week I am featuring my Library of America edition of the Hanish novels and stories by Ursula K. LeGuin. These are LeGuin's major science fiction works, spanning the whole course of her long career, linked by the notion that different worlds were settled at some point by people from a planet named Hain. It's … Continue reading Shelf Control: The Hainish Novels and Stories
I hope you'll continue to indulge me as I do more wrap-up posts, which are mostly for my own edification. Last year was the first time I assembled a post reviewing all my fiction reading for the year, and it was interesting to see what patterns emerged. I noted that there were a lot of … Continue reading My Year in Fiction
I have not been good about posting my progress on this project, but I didn't read so many books for it in 2022, so it's simple enough to list them now. See the books I've read so far on the Around the World project page. In January I started out the year with the long, … Continue reading Around the World project update
Announcing a new reading challenge to help expand and diversify our inner world
It's always difficult to find the balance between making too many reading and blogging plans, which causes me to feel stressed out and unjoyful, and not making any plans, which robs me of the pleasure of anticipation and accomplishment. There are some challenges and projects that I want to keep long-term, while others come and … Continue reading Plans for 2023: Something old, something new
Reviewing my nonfiction reading for Nonfiction November makes things a little awkward when it comes to the year-end review, because it's off by two months. So I decided to redo this post, counting from January through December. Here again are the books I found most outstanding, slightly adjusted for 2022: And my complete list by … Continue reading My Year in Nonfiction Update
I've never done this meme before, although I've seen it floating around for years, but when I saw Annabel's 2022 edition I thought I'd give it a try, and it was quite entertaining to complete the prompts with books I read in 2022. What would your answers be? In high school I was: Educated People … Continue reading My Life in Books 2022
