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Goal for June: Read a book a day. Follow my reading list here.

Free reading’s not just for library books; here are top 10 places to get free books! (first 5 here, last 5 here) Most of these books’re free because they’re online –

Green reading tip: Read free books online.

And below’re 3 short books I read to finish out my 30 books:

Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain: Main difference from the movie: The characters are not as good looking. Also, a few extra flashbacks, more nuanced details. Also, a v. short book — helpful if you’re trying to read 30 books in 30 days.

James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave. The story of a man who returns from war horribly disfigured, who finds a couple helpers to read to him and deliver strange letters to a woman he’s obsessed with. The painful and magical plot revolves around the relationships and friendships between these four –

Clayton Eshleman, What She Means. Poems — many of them love poems of sorts to his wife Caryl, but also poems that explore socio-political issues without hammering you over the head with rhetoric. In his intro, he writes: “The task increasingly becomes to remain open to the voices that appear in the contradictions of trying to lead a decent life while being a whilte American male, and even if poor by current American standards, living with the conveniences that only 1 percent of the world population enjoys.”

Books read:
Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain
James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave
Clayton Eshleman, What She Means

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