Today’s haul:

Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
Mary Oliver: Red Bird
Frank Herbert: Heretics of Dune

The latest Facebook fad is listing 15 things that will “always stick with you.” One that interested me enough to participate was “15 books.”

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
1984 by George Orwell
Till We Have Faces by C.S. [...]

Recent book purchases:

Matthew Arnold: The Portable Matthew Arnold
Wendell Berry: The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Robert Bly: Eating the Honey of Words
Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry
Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems
Kilala Kitamoto: LEGO book museum Vol. 1
W.S. Merwin: Selected Poems
William Stafford: The Way It Is
William Stafford: Writing the Australian Crawl
David Wagoner: Dry Sun, Dry Wind (First Edition)

I’ve driven by Open Books on 45th here in Seattle many times, but I’ve either been too busy or they’ve been closed. My wife and I were driving past last night after dinner when I noticed that they were open.
We parked around the corner and walked through the rain, only to see that the store [...]

Books I got for Christmas:

How to Mow the Lawn by Sam Martin
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville by Stephen Jay Gould
Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems by David Wagoner (hurray!)
Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver

Music I got for Christmas:

The Crane Wife from The Decemberists
Sam’s Town from The Killers

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