Hi @internrachel @julia1!

I’ve read more books! My girlfriend calls it an addiction but I don’t believe her.

Today I read The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff (206 pages), which is one of my summer reading books and was absolutely amazing. I love Tobias Wolff and have read several of the stories in the collection before, but he continues to wow me. “The Other Miller” was probably my favorite of the lot, although every time I read “Bullet in the Brain” it wows me all over again.

Tobias Wolff is actually sort of a theme in what I’ve been reading lately–I also just finished the Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (552 pages), which he edited. The stories were amazing and incredible intense–I don’t think there was a single one in the anthology I didn’t enjoy!

I also finished All Of Us, Raymond Carver’s poetry collection (320), which broke my heart toward the end. The poems he wrote in the final months of his life coupled with the letter from Tess Gallagher which concluded the book actually reduced my to tears in a public place, which basically never happens. I bought this book because of Autostraddle’s pure poetry week(s), so there’s also that.

I also read Rant by Chuck Palahnuik (336 pages), which is probably the only book in this post I’m not overwhelmingly enamored with. Though I love Palahnuik, and enjoyed the variation on his storytelling mechanism, the book really seemed to echo Fight Club, which in my opinion is the stronger novel.