Read the short story Goat by James McBride.

Read the short story No Man’s Guns by Elmore Leonard.

Read the short story The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Started reading: Be Cool by Elmore Leonard.