What I Read

It’s been a pretty productive reading month as I close in on 30 days of being furloughed from work. I hit my unofficial goal of reading 40 books for the year and knocked out a few that have been on my ‘to-read’ list for years, including Ray Bradbury’s classic dark fantasy, Something Wicked This Way Comes. I never knew Bradbury could be so lyrical. Everything about this book was aesthetic even in its ugliness and sensual even in its horror, and I think it’s going to become a yearly autumnal reread for me.

“No such place as Heck. But hell’s right here under ‘A’ for Alighieri.”
“Allegory’s beyond me,” said Jim.

I also read the first two books in Austin Kleon’s Artist trilogy, Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work. I’ve mentioned feeling creatively uninspired lately and these both helped push me to look for new creative inspirations and figure out how to come to grips with sharing my work online. I’m looking forward to keeping going next month with his final book in the series, Keep Going.

What I Watched

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