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Okay, I'm finally determined to make better use of Goodreads -- as a reader, more than as a writer. After a lifetime of reading, because my brain is a sieve, I have trouble recalling even those books that made the biggest impressions on me. Sometimes I can't remember the two hundred plus books I've reviewed. I won't try to list the thousands of books in my past, but going forward, I hope to keep a record here.
This is as much a note to myself as to anyone who cares to read this!

Hi, Daph --

It's the end of semester, and in addition to term papers and finals (or because of them), I'm reading trash: Michael B. Parker, stuff like that. Also Best Science Essays of 2009; I like that stuff. Also working my way through the novels of Patrick O'Brian, which I find soothing. Also a new book by Amanda Hesser of food essays she edited when she was at the Times, which I'm reviewing.