some of what I am reading at the moment

When I started writing here it was to hear my own voice, but of course it is easy over time to slide into trying to write what I think others will want to read -- and there is nothing inherently wrong with that, but it is not what I wanted to use this space for, and I must keep coming back to centre and reminding myself of that or I will end up silent in all the fractal possibilities of what Others (any imagined other, not any specific you who is reading this) will think or say or want or do. This does not mean commentary or discussion are unwelcome, they are always very, very welcome, just that writing with an eye to pleasing others ends up without the writing at all. So --

Behind a cut tag because it is very long, my current reading and what I am thinking about it; it wrote itself in my head as I was driving hither and yon and back again running errands today.

( The first 7 of 18 books... )

The other 11 will have to wait until I have made my children dinner and had some sort of snack; I had matzah brei for brunch and it was a little too dry as well as some hours ago -- but I will have dinner with our spouse tonight, after several days not, so just a snack.