Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026December reading. Not pictured: Time Regained by Marcel Proust. Favourites were the Proust, Buzzati, Teffi, and Plyäinen. #NYRBWomen25 #Proust2025 1221
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Books read in November. One for #NYRBWomen25 and a couple for Native American Heritage Month. Sad to see the end of the Barrøy Chronicles and Roy Jacobsen. 5 years from reading the first to the last was too long a gap, so a re-read is planned. 3110
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 25/11/2025It's a historical novel about the clash of cultures (Sami, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Russian) in Sápmi during the 1850s. Much of it is centered around the real live religious figure Lars Levi Laestadius: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Le.... Just started, but I love it so far. 250
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Fortunately I'm off full time now and I'll be enjoying these three. 260
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025October reading with Scandinavia well tepresented. Not pictured: The Captive by Marcel Proust. I enjoyed all but the Garcia Marquez. My favorites were Orbital, The Postcard, and Mirror to Shoulder, Signal. #NYRBWomen25 191
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Just finished Slouching Towards Babylon. Next up are I Used to be Charming and Didion & Babitz. #NYRBWomen25 2110
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025September reading. Favorites were Occupation Journal and Look at Me. #NYRBWomen25 #SpinsterSeptember 2161
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Read in January. The highlights for me were Tom Jones, Trees, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. Spent a lot of time with Lies and Sorcery and Swann's Way. #NYRBWomen25 #AContinuation25 #Proust25 0160
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Finally posting November and December reads. Too many slow reads in November, but December was very productive and everything was great. Finished 21 of 23 for #NYRBWomen24 skipping two rereads. 0130
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024October was a good reading month for me. Finished The Vegetarian just before the Nobel announcement. It was a favorite, along with the Freya Stark and the two Deborah Levy books. #NYRBWomen24 3301
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 02/11/2023October reading. I enjoyed them all, but perhaps the Solnit was my favorite. Loved the references to two books I own: Views of the Mississippi and Death Valley in '49. Read two for #NYRBWomen23 and the Jackson for #1962club. 0100
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 17/10/2023Great time in Iowa City last night seeing Werner Herzog in conversation with Andrei Codrescu about his new memoir. 030
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 15/10/2023New additions to my library from the Moline library book sale and a visit to Prairie Lights. A table full of nature books from a single donation. Another person donated two tables of French lit, which sadly I can't begin to read. 070
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 10/10/2023September reads included books for #NYRBWomen23, #CzechLitMonth, and #SpinsterSeptember 1120
Tom Smith @smithtm.bsky.social · 01/09/2023Another great month of reading in August. Eight books for #WITMonth, two for #NYRBWomen2023, and seven writers who were new to me. I loved all but the Bronsky and my favorites were the Giono, Nors, and Djavadi. 1120
