What are you reading?
I'll bring one of these to tonight's party
What are you reading? If you’re attending the Silent Reading Party tonight, I’d love to know. Even if you’re not attending tonight’s party, I’d still love to know!
How to enjoy tonight’s live music, aka the “virtual party”
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If you are not a paid subscriber here, individual tickets are available.
The in-person party at the Sorrento is sold out.
How to show our piano player some extra love
If you would like to show Paul a little extra love for tonight’s performance, you can find him on Venmo or Paypal. His Venmo is paulmatthew-moore (and if you need them, the last four digits of his number are 9033). His Paypal can be found by searching for paulislove@yahoo.com
How to share this live music with a friend
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What should I read tonight?
I need to start rereading A Room of One’s Own, because I’m leading a book club on it that starts two weeks from tomorrow.
But I also need to read Frankenstein for the current book club led by Rebecca Brown and Neil Ferron. (To learn more about Rebecca’s work, check out the latest episode of the FrizzLit Podcast.)
My Cat Yugoslavia was recommended to me by the novelist Edmund White (who’s also discussed on the fourth episode of the podcast).
And Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker comes recommended to me by the poet Heather McHugh. It’s a curated collection of newspaper clippings charting the build-up to World War II. Seems relevant to the escalating international conflicts today.
(By the way, we discussed two other books by Baker on the third episode of the podcast—the one where we also talked about Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s imminent Oscar.)
What are you reading?
Enough about my indecision. Too many options is a good problem to have. (But if you have an opinion about what I should read, I’d love to hear it.)
More importantly: What are you reading tonight? Add it to the comments!
Ugh I’m in the book hole between books and I have so many to read but then I read a review and get starting anxiety.....please tell me IM not the only one!!
I’ll be reading James McBride, the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. I began with Matrix by Lauren Geoff, only to realize I had already read it!😂. Although it is worthy of a re-read.