Book Your Stocking: December 28
As New Year's Eve draws nearer, you might be mulling over the you of 2017 and the you 2018 could bring--from resolutions to recharging, from musings to wanderings--and how much control you actually have over the transformations.
Because I've returned to reading this year, I look forward to all the change the books this coming year will bring. --How all of these writers sharing their words, thoughts, wishes, fears, and ideas will affect my own. It's slightly exhilarating.
And joining us today is another reader who is sharing her own book lists, to-give, and to-read, which are also lists of stillness and change, I think.
Please welcome today's reader, Polly Buckingham.
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Giving List
(When you read something and say, "wow, there's nothing else like this"--and also you're delighted and moved)
Love’s Last Number is a stunning, all encompassing collection, shiny and sad, wise and generous: think owls, King Arthur, and Mahler in a clef-shaped canoe. This is Howell's 10th collection.
Despite the darkness, these stories, linked by an earthquake, are ultimately not so much hopeful as they are spirituality enlightening.
Wishing List
The master who claimed two adjectives must be hard earned--these stories were long hidden since the the Nazi Pogrom after Babel's unfortunate early death. I've read a handful of the stories: tight and weird and vivid and dark. I look forward to reading them all.
I've read four of five Crace novels, all spectacular, fable-like, weird and beautifully rendered. This one looks more speculative than the others.
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About today's reader:
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| Polly Buckingham |
Polly Buckingham is the author of The Expense of a View (Katherine Anne Porter Award winner) and A Year of Silence (Jeanne Lieby Award winner). She teaches creative writing at Eastern Washington University and is the editor of Willow Springs and founding editor of StringTown Press.
