Last month (due to events previously mentioned), I was unable to get much reading done. I finished Bellefleur, tore through Self Storage in one evening, and was torn to bits by Jerzy Kosinski's devastating WWII novel The Painted Bird. I gave up on trying to finish The Towers of Trebizond after having to take more than a week off from reading it. (I found it impossible, while in the hospital, to focus on anything more mentally taxing than the photo essay in the latest Vanity Fair issue. Not very Proustian of me, but it was the best I could do.)
Earlier in the month I managed to make it to the Gayle Brandeis reading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. It was interesting to hear that Gayle had written the first draft of her latest book Self Storage during National Novel Writing Month, especially since I had just purchased a book --basically a DIY Guide to "NaNoWriMo"-- by founder Chris Baty who was also at the reading. Last November I was kind of busy getting to know a certain someone and completely missed out on my chance to write along with all the other brave souls. I didn't want to wait until this November to try it out, so I bought the guide as incentive and intend to put it to good use on April 1st. Wish me luck!
As for this month's reading list: So far, I've enjoyed Twyla Tharp's non-fiction book The Creative Habit, a unique look at creativity from the dancer/choreographer's perspective, and am well into Julian Barnes' page-turner Arthur & George.
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