{"id":7638,"date":"2017-06-10T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:48:17","slug":"small-stacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/small-stacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Stacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>A couple of reading lists, nine titles ordered and delivered to Halle Library on behalf of the First-year Writing Program, and then another pile, an odd-stack, maybe I&#8217;ll get to these this summer and maybe I won&#8217;t, read bottom to top and top to bottom, shuffled and reshuffled depending on where I leave a copy, depending on what time I have, depending on mood and disposition and weather and gut bacteria, depending on nothing much at all sometimes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7637\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7637\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/small-stacks\/fywp-17-library\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?fit=3264%2C1836&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,1836\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SAMSUNG-SM-G850A&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1495124140&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2017 FYWP Book Donations\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;For Halle Library, nine titles.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?fit=644%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7637\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?resize=644%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?resize=644%2C362&amp;ssl=1 644w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fywp-17-library.jpg?w=1932&amp;ssl=1 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Halle Library, nine titles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am reminded upon\u00a0posting just the one photo (above) that reading habits run a fickle, snaking course&#8211;meandering and irregular, never especially disciplined-seeming except perhaps in their continuing, on-going. Anti-library, nomad-habit, ambivalence, juxtaposition, re-reading, crumb trails, low on fucks or high, intention and purpose or their lacunae, and then add to it finishing up with writing one&#8217;s own books, with others or solo, mid-careering, wondering only but so effortfully what&#8217;s next and why would <em>this<\/em> be next but not <em>that<\/em>. Not the most strenuous May-June ever, litotes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7636\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7636\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/small-stacks\/dm-summer-17r-toread\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?fit=3264%2C1836&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,1836\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SAMSUNG-SM-G850A&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1495052091&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Small Stack\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Little Mushroom the Englightened Yogi Secretly Stayed With, Untroubled&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?fit=644%2C362&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?resize=644%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?resize=644%2C362&amp;ssl=1 644w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dm-summer-17r-toread.jpg?w=1932&amp;ssl=1 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Little Mushroom the Englightened Yogi Secretly Stayed With, Untroubled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Implicitly (until now) there is some kind of faint jostling between these stacks, different microlibraries, hints of interest and curiosity washed back by life and distraction, laziness and Netflix, accidental and well-intentioned anti-library, I meant to read you. I really did. I was going to. I was going to read everything.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much missing here, too, another gift, Murakami&#8217;s The Strange Library, a couple of books from Ypsilanti Public Library due last night by 11:59 p.m. whose deadline I beat by an hour to renew&#8211;a miracle&#8211;even though they&#8217;re all read, finished, complete, ready for the return slot. Read with greater urgency the books that go back, temporary visitors, ones who would if they could but who cannot stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>A couple of reading lists, nine titles ordered and delivered to Halle Library on behalf of the First-year Writing Program, and then another pile, an odd-stack, maybe I&#8217;ll get to these this summer and maybe I won&#8217;t, read bottom to top and top to bottom, shuffled and reshuffled depending on where I leave a copy,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[274,3057,571,1531,327,3056,2384,2046],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhythms","tag-books","tag-habits","tag-library","tag-lists","tag-reading","tag-stacks","tag-summer","tag-titles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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