One good thing about retirement is that I don't feel obligated to finish a book I find gives me no pleasure. Of course, I still review, so I had to finish Marilynne Robinson's Home and Ian Buruma's The China Lover, neither of which I would have continued reading otherwise. I didn't finish Per Petterson's To Siberia. I loved Out Stealing Horses, but found this one tedious.
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteThis brings up a question I was just asked via e-mail.
As the game changes, where would an author send a book for review?
The poet who has a new book out, said that if she did not hear from me, she would assume I was stumped as well.
Yours,
Rus
Given the number of blogs concerned with poetry - and lit blogs in general - I wouldn't discount alerting them to a new book. And The Inquirer does still review poetry and so does the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The idea is to get some buzz started.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Frank.
ReplyDeleteI'll pass word along. This is a very useful note.
Yours,
Rus