March Continues With the Going On-ness

More writing this week, tens of thousands of words pouring out, and good ones, too.  Very happy with my writing for once.  I don't want to slack off on the reading, though, so I am finding the balance.  I don't know if I'll get to 1000 books this year, but I think I've been over that, and will just keep at it as long as it takes.

135. MY READING LIFE by Pat Conroy

I could have done with the long cry over what the evil North did to the saintly South--I think he gave that little matter of slavery half a sentence, and nothing at all for the valiant South's desire to have slavery in the new territories, but Southerners always seem to forget that part--and Conroy sure does complain about his father a lot.  But he expresses his love for books well, and I wish I could have gone to a few of those book parties.

136. THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION #20 - edited by Gardner Dozois

I'm starting to think I don't really like science fiction.

137. CALL IT EXPERIENCE by Erskine Caldwell

A writer's memoir that spends a little too much time detailing his moves around the country, and not enough on what he did there.  The first mention of a close relationship with a woman comes many pages in, and he's already got kids with her!

138. PLANT DREAMING DEEP by May Sarton

Terrific memoir of a solitary life.  Would have driven me up a wall not long ago, but can't get enough of her thoughts on living alone--see below.

139. GREAT WORLD CIRCUS by William Kotzwinkle

Magical, somewhat inscrutable fantasy.

140. AN ARMFUL OPF WARM GIRL by W.M. Spackman

141. EMPEROR OF THE AIR by Ethan Canin

Reread some of these, read others for the first time.  Still my favorite of his work.

142. JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

143. SONS OF DARKNESS - edited by Michael Rowe

144. DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS - edited by Pat Keesey

145. DARK ANGELS - edited by Pat Keesey

Gay and lesbian vampires.  I don't know what I was thinking, either, but I blew through these, to coin a phrase, rapidly, and didn't get a rise out of any of 'em.  So I guess I'm not into gay vampires, or, shockingly, lesbian ones.