S. Jane Sloat
I love poetry, literature and non-fiction. Every summer I go on a diet of short stories. I like the literary, the mainstream, the experimental and the un-categorical. I'm not big on the incomprehensible, but the small incomprehensible can be good. I don't believe in god, but I'm interested in religion, too, mostly eastern and quakerism, which I grew up with. I like history, though mostly American, and long ago in another lifetime, I studied Chinese. I'm a feminist. And a mother, wife and dog lover. And an ex-pat.
As I get older I'm only interested in reading books that are wonderful and otherwise remarkable.
In poetry and otherwhere, the lower-case i/I doesn't bother me one bit.
I trust the Booker more than the Pulitzer.
Regarding my shelves, I won't be listing all the instruction manuals, young adult and children's books I've read unless there's something really important I want to say about them. Which I don't, mostly.
If you want to be-friend me, that's nice, but please do it for a reason other than upping your numbers or trying to sell me your book over & over! That's ridiculous.
“I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.”
“God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.”
“For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.”
“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.”