I’m reading The Stand and I think there’s a mucus under my bed.

Read the short story 1000 Year Old Ghosts by Laura Chow Reeve.

Read the short story Old Hope by Clare Sestanovich.

Finished reading: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Took me 2 days. What an incredible book. I never imagined my artistic psyche would be represented by a long dead 19th century poet, or at all, really, but here it is. The prose almost makes me cry. I’m already planning on re-reading it.

Read the short story The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami.

Read the short story Chivalry by Neil Gaiman.

Started reading: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Read the short story Graham Greene by Percival Everett.

Read the short story What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah.

Read the short story Empty Places by Richard Parks.

Started reading: The Stand by Stephen King.

Read the short story Kin by Bruce McAllister.

Finished reading: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I started re-reading this for some reason I now forget. You know what? It’s still good. Read it in 5 days.

Didn’t finish reading: A Brief History of Ireland by Richard Killen. Gave up after 50 pages and 6 days.

Didn’t finish reading The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr. A giant coffee table book my wife already owned, I started reading it after watching City Lights and listening to the Unspooled podcast … Read more

Did not finished reading: Building a Character by Contantin Stanislavski. Was leant this book by a friend to prepare for a play. It’s all anecdotes about how Stanislavski learned different techniques while a student. Fascinating. Weird. Useful? A trip. Gave up after 196 days and 152 pages.

Didn’t finish reading: The Actors Guide to Self Marketing by Carla Renata. Gave up after 73 pages and 17 days. Instantly depressing.

Finished reading: Be Cool by Elmore Leonard. It took me 18 days. While the prose is energetic and engaging, I kept finding myself not giving a shit about what happens next. A lot of boomer fantasies … Read more

Started reading: Learning Javascript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani.

Finished reading: The C Book by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley. Took me 10 days. I wanted to get a basic grasp of C, but most of the resources listed … Read more

Started reading: The Actors Guide to Self Marketing by Carla Renata.

Started reading: Be Cool by Elmore Leonard.

Finished reading: Fantasy Land: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History by Kurt Anderson. Took me 32 days.

Started reading: The C Book by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran, originally published by Addison Wesley.

Started reading: It Came From Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office by Dale Beran.