This time to Saskatoon! Savvy Canlitmag⁽¹⁾ readers will instantly be able to guess the publication, but I hesitate to mention it due to vague superstitions and the fact that there is, of course, the possibility that the poems will be rejected and I will fret to myself if only I hadn’t mentioned the name of the magazine!

But of course this is all meaningless.

Been reading Bukowski lately, and just picked up two new⁽²⁾ books of Atwood’s poetry⁽³⁾ from Seeker’s, one of my favourite bookstores in this universe.

Still working on that short story. I kind of let it slide as I’ve been feeling sort of inspired to write poetry this week – most of it bad, and thus discarded, but there was one I really liked, and I send that along with some others written earlier to the (not so) mysterious Saskatoon lit mag.

Excited. Apprehensive. The result of work. Work that frustrates me the way code does, getting right, doing it properly. Work I love.

Back to it!

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Footnotes:

1. How’s that for an abbreviation? [↩]
2. Used, actually, but new to me. [↩]
3. Atwood, my idol. [↩]

I read a fair bit. Perhaps not as much as Sarah Weinman, but she’s a professional reviewer with the luxury to spend all her time reading, and by day I serve as a senior business analyst. Still, I do ok.

Inspired by Weinmen, and a few friends who track what they read, for the first time in my life I’ve started keeping a list. It only includes books I’ve finished reading, and while I’m listing the graphic novels, I’m not counting them. Not because they’re not “real literature” (though that may be debatable), but because they’re so short. As of today I’m at 25 for 2009.⁽¹⁾

I tend to read several books at once. Some books make great subway reading. Others prefer a quiet afternoon and a nice cup of chai. Others still keep me up all night wondering what’s going to happen next, when they’re supposed to lulling me to sleep.

While I’m not a career reviewer, I do write reviews for websites and magazines,⁽²⁾ and also to better organize my thoughts, interpret and integrate what I’ve read. Continue reading »

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Footnotes:

1. Plus 7 graphic novels, for those interested. [↩]
2. A dozen or so publishers regularly send their latest books and catalogues to my postbox. [↩]