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lowing and thinking as possible sometimes i turn on the light and lie there furiously noticing that the world is not in the shape that i prefer and that no matter how many of my favorite cherry cough drops i suck nothing changes here s january a tunnel under the snow share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 4 january 2019 january 4 2019 melissa allen 1 comment in high school biology we dissected our way through the animal phyla slicing into specimens that had been ordered for us from a catalog and whose blood had been replaced with formaldehyde for the greater convenience of scholars i had previously thought of myself as squeamish but i turned out not to be or at least not outrageously so what was inside things i admitted to myself was worth seeing no matter how appalling it might be spring rain the worms come to the surface waiting for the future i cut a worm in half segmented worm the war longer than it looks on tv share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading 1 january 2019 january 1 2019 melissa allen leave a comment december 25 december 25 2018 melissa allen 4 comments we ve made it to the end of this awkward advent calendar thanks for opening the windows with me waiting in line for a candle to melt share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 24 december 24 2018 melissa allen leave a comment the sun stands december still the night before christmas something small chews through the wires december stars from inside a cave share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 23 december 23 2018 melissa allen leave a comment every corner i think about a spider the shape of the world when i swallow after flying away the memory share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 22 december 22 2018 december 18 2018 melissa allen leave a comment onoma i forgot my own name today which is just where i m starting tomorrow i ll forget the name of the restaurant on the corner and the greek goddess of love the next day i ll forget the oceans and arithmetic there will be nowhere to sail nothing to count the names of clouds are next to go no rain so life itself begins to falter the crops wither animals wearily circle their last resting place the earth cracks and there s a landslide of names we don t know what to call each other any more but here s a cave here s some ice water here s my hand the ice booms as we cross it electroshock share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 21 december 21 2018 december 18 2018 melissa allen leave a comment i read somewhere around 65 books this year not counting the 90 poetry books i read this winter and spring when i was judging the haiku society of america merit book awards contest most of the 65 were not poetry books because i was pretty much poetried out at that point mostly they were novels because that s most of what i read most of the time and always has been since i started in on the complete works of carolyn keene composite fictional author of the nancy drew books when i was six and got obsessed with long stories about things that didn t really happen it s strange to me when i talk about the books i ve been reading and someone looks surprised oh so you mostly read novels well yeah doesn t everyone it s always shocking to realize that everyone is not exactly like me because i m always kind of jealous of the people who get to make those best of the year lists and always think i could do a better job if only anyone cared about my opinion here is my petty resentful list of my favorite 13 books i read this year my only criterion was that they had to be books i read for the first time this year which is actually a significant limitation because about half of what i read are re reads and frequently they are re re or re re re or re re re reads the books i really love i basically never stop rereading i am still rereading some books i read for the first time at seven or eight it s still always worth it these are listed pretty much in the order i read them not ranked in any way because that s just exhausting also 13 what s that about born a crime trevor noah if you re interested in the human effect of legally mandated and bureaucratized racism and also you would like to read about the most badass mother in the history of badass mothers this one is for you note not a novel the philosopher s flight tom miller steampunk magic alternate history gender politics telekinesis there is really not anything irresistibly interesting that got left out of this book brass xhenet aliu set in a town not far away from the one i grew up in powerfully evoked the familiar world of depressed new england former mill towns and their european immigrant populations and made me realize how much i had loved them all along the power naomi alderman yes this is the one you ve heard about it s as good as everyone says both compellingly readable and philosophically rigorous will not leave your head ever how to stop time matt haig movingly and believably explores what it would be like to live a really really really impossibly long time when everyone else you know doesn t asymmetry lisa halliday on everyone s favorites list though i was prepared not to like it because it s partly a roman à clef about philip roth and his 25 year old lover yes the author which sounds horrible doesn t it but brilliantly it s also about a man of middle eastern origin being unjustly detained and interrogated in an airport because because it works that s why the changeling victor lavalle i know i loved this book when i was reading it in its weird mix of realism and fantasy it is not unlike murakami but like many dreamlike books this one had faded in my mind to the rich texture of a barely remembered but compelling dream there are way worse things you could have in your mind the expendable man dorothy hughes written in the 50s a noir thriller that makes a stunning point as salient today as then by withholding one fact from the reader for the first couple of chapters to convince you to suspect someone completely innocent just because he is convinced correctly that he will be suspected theory of bastards audrey schulman if you ve been looking for a dystopian novel that manages to also be an intense primer in evolutionary biology and also is kind of a love story and also somehow is really funny you ve come to the right place severance ling ma this book might haunt me more than anything else i read this year it s a combination bildungsroman zombie apocalypse story and it works so much better than you could ever imagine you ll laugh you ll cry you ll wonder nervously whether you might be coming down with the fatal brain eating disease that s killing everyone in the world and if so how much longer you should keep going in to your empty office and doing your stupid job a terrible country keith gessen i can t stop thinking about this one either it takes place in moscow where i spent a few months almost thirty years ago but a post communist moscow that is almost but not entirely unlike the moscow i knew and it has a denouement that unlike the denouements of most novels for the last century or so involves a stunning moral downfall that you don t see coming until it s already bashed your heart to pieces the library book susan orlean hey another book that s not a novel or even fiction but susan orlean writes like a novelist whose plot and characters just happen to mirror the real world so maybe it doesn t count also i loved being immersed again in the world that i left behind when i finished library school and didn t get or try to get a job in a library unsheltered barbara kingsolver technically i have not actually finished this book yet but i think i ve read enough at this point to put it on my favorites list the narrator main character unlike any of the other main characters in any of these books is a woman not too far off my own age and her life is both disturbingly like and disturbingly unlike mine oh also it takes place in one house in two different times of history and involves victorian acolytes of darwin so i was never not going to like it format breakdown 11 novels 1 memoir 1 work of creative nonfiction genre breakdown of the novels 6 speculative fiction 3 contemporary realism 1 thriller 1 hybrid contemporary historical realism this actually seems like a pretty good representation of the kinds of things i read in the proportions i read them with regard to how much science fiction i read i would just like to say that i think we ve gotten to the point in history where science fiction seems so relevant to the range of our possible futures that it almost feels irresponsible to avoid it also it makes my brain feel good suggestions for next year s reading welcomed in the comments share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 20 december 20 2018 december 18 2018 melissa allen 4 comments i ll tell something like a story green and wonderful the bird whose latin name i have forgotten and also whose common name sang in a bush full of poisonous red berries we watched it through binoculars from the charabanc you sketched it in pencil lightly but with zest the twentieth century edged on i wore a cerulean scarf later that afternoon you pulled it deliberately tighter around my neck trying me we were wading in a warm lake water lapping against our knees as if it were testing our reflexes we had known each other for approximately two hundred conversations blue spread everywhere out to and beyond the horizon up to and beyond the sky later still in a den of iniquity we joined in the singing of bawdy songs full of words i barely knew whose melodies seemed to me at that precarious time of my life very like the melodies of the green bird whose green i can still see when i close my eyes here on a planet so far away from it cats eyes the eye of the storm it won t stop raining i m a cloud chartreuse i tell it slant share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 19 december 19 2018 december 17 2018 melissa allen 2 comments i never knew till lately that there was so much middle of the night i dream i think i think about dreaming i dream about thinking it all happens inside my head nothing s outside my head anymore i need something solid three dimensional but then i d have to decide what kind of solidity i need and then it s back to my head again should i go outside but it s ten below but it s two am but i m alone i m trying to let the words out but they re stopping in my mouth or really somewhere even short of that it s like a swarm of bees in there giving each other conflicting directions to the flowers a wandering dog nothing much to be explained share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 18 december 18 2018 december 17 2018 melissa allen leave a comment the owl is hooting high in the tree right outside my window up and down the street dogs are barking restlessly in response it s eight days before christmas the presents are wrapped and under the tree my stomach is growling a comet is flying by subject verb object subject verb object subject verb object last night i had the strangest dream moon river share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading december 17 december 17 2018 melissa allen leave a comment our ability to remember the past but not the future can be understood as a buildup of correlations between interacting particles when you read a message on a piece of paper your brain becomes correlated with it through the photons that reach your eyes only from that moment on will you be capable of remembering what the message says natalie wolchover new quantum theory could explain the flow of time quanta magazine when we examine the problem closely we find that time is not the unitary phenomenon we may have supposed it to be this can be illustrated with some simple experiments for example when a stream of images is shown over and over in succession an oddball image thrown into the series appears to last for a longer period although presented for the same physical duration david eagleman brain time in what s next dispatches on the future of science snow globe a theory about loneliness before love she sets the thermostat a little lower afternoon drowsiness one more world before it snows share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print email a link to a friend opens in 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