To Read

Lucia Berlin: several titles, none available at PC Library as of 12 August 2015. An article in the NYer about her and her work.

Legal Limit, by Martin Clark

Seattle Times Best Books

Gleaned from the 14 December 2014 Seattle Times, books to read:

• Let Me Be Frank With You, by Richard Ford
• The Stories of Jane Gardam
• The Peripheral, by William Gibson (requested from PCL)
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things,  by Alice Hoffman
• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (M. requested from PCL)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson (non-fiction, by a lawyer who defends the most hopeless of criminals) 

From the Crime Fiction List: 

• Destroyer Angel,  by Nevada Barr
• Love Story, With Murders,  by Harry Bingham
• Jack of Spies, by David Downing
• Darkness, Darkness,by John Harvey (this is described as the last in a series about a detective named Charlie Resnick, in Nottingham -- might be good to read some of the earlier ones in the series)
• Day of Atonement, by David Liss (author of Conspiracy of Paper,  read and entered recently in here. The main character is one Sebastian Fox, a young, Jewish "thief taker." This reminds me of things in Conspiracy.)
• Red Joan, by Jennie Rooney

To Read; 25 March 2013

The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (began reading on 13 Dec 2013)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos.

All That Is, by Janes Salter

Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
by Robin Nagle  [Barnes and Noble Link]

Poets to read: Weldon Kees, Kathleen Rooney

Cynthia Huntington

Nikky Finney

Sara Miller:

I wish I could keep my thoughts in order

and my ducks in a row.

I wish I could keep my ducks in a thought

or my thoughts in a duck...

“Countermeasures,” by Sara Miller

Short stories: Carol Shields

Mary Roach 

I suppose that's enough for now.

18 April 2013