Don’t you wish you had kept record of every book you’ve ever read? I suppose some foreward thinking souls have actually done that. I’m not one of them. But I am going to try to keep updated this list of books I’m reading, or re-reading, this year. Some of my favorite books on writing are listed on my For Writers page.
Currently reading:
- The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb (novel)
- On Writing by Stephen King (non-fiction)
Aug/Sep 2009
- Columbine by Dave Cullen (non-fiction)
- The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (non-fiction)
July 2009
- Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (novel)
- Oral History by Lee Smith (novel)
June 2009
- Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (non-fiction)
- Glimmer Train Short Stories, #70 (stories)
May 2009:
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (novel)
- Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (novel)
April 2009:
- The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
- The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (novel)
- Jesus: The Evidence by Ian Wilson (non-fiction)
March 2009:
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’Connor (stories)
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (novel)
- To See and See Again by Tara Bahrampour (biography)
February 2009:
- We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson (novella)
- The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (novel)
- Glimmer Train Short Stories, # 69 (stories)
- Surviving Nashville by Stacy Barton (stories)
- Tara Road by Maeve Binchy (novel)
January 2009:
- Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout (novel)
- On Writing by Stephen King (non-fiction)
- Little Children by Tom Perotta (novel)
- Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience by Stanton T. Friedman and Kathleen Marden (non-fiction)

I can state -- almost unequivocally -- that the title of this blog does not refer to my mental state. It refers to my writing, which does, of course, flow out of my mind. Sometimes the process of writing is messy, sometimes weird, sometimes beautiful -- and always harder than I wish, but I love it. As I wander back into the real world from time to time, I hope to entertain you with my musings.
I have just finished writing a novel titled The Brevity of Roses.

