Reading Wednesday

Seems as good a time as any to jump in on this.

currently in progress
- Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit, a history of walking from when humans first went bipedal to modern Las Vegas. She's that kind of writer. It's sharp and contemplative, and it makes me glad I have so many opportunities to get out and use my feet to get me places.

- The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkien. A history textbook crossed with the Bible, it's more entertaining now than when I was in high school.

- Time's Enemy, LA Graf, one of a bunch of Trek novels I got in an eBay auction that came packaged with the one book I wanted, A Stitch in Time by Andrew J. Robinson. Decent stuff, mostly memorable for letting Odo be Odo and operate without the restraint of a budget.

- Tao Te Ching, John C. H. Wu translation. Something I snagged way back when I was interning at the NYPL that would otherwise have been tossed out. I need to start over from the beginning.

- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, Wallace Stevens. I've been reading this one since grad school, and should probably make an effort to finish it before the next presidential election.

recently finished
- The Days of Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin. A fine ending to a lovely series; I don't know if I'd have liked it to end with a death more or not. I do know the time-and-place markers feel a little forced, and I'm also fairly sure that's because I'm not thirty years removed from them the way I was for the ones in the first few books.