I'm going to have to come up with a way to get more of my colleagues to post to this blog!

The holidays are well and truly over and there's a ton of catching up to do on my end (now that everyone's back... so be careful what you wish for)! But in spite of so much busyness, I've been reading Thrity Umrigar's new novel, The Space Between Us. I'm close to 100 pages into the book and I love it.

Happy New Year everyone! I'm ready, once again, to post some photos of bookcases (but I'll refrain from promising one per day).

Pictured here is UCR Creative Writing Professor Judy Kronenfeld's "poetry pile up, poetry jostling other poetry, poetry books keeping each other company."