EVER LOOKIN' FOR WORDS

Rain has arrived, which means this will be my last report of the Summer/Fall City Slicker Harvest in my latest update of my Recently Relished W(h)ine List below. Kinda sucks to know that’s all I was able to manage this season in what is, after all, one of Earth’s most fertile spots. I mean, Halloween is coming but the pumpkins failed to show up!!!! Anyway, here’s moi latest list and don’t scoff at some of the novels as it reflects how I ran out of books to read during my last out-of-the-country trip and, unable to not always have my nose in a book—any book!—I just read what was available around me. Also, please note that in the Publications section, if you see an asterisk before the title, that means a review copy is available for Galatea Resurrects! More info on that HERE.


SUMMER/FALL CITY SLICKER HARVEST
23 bunches of house grapes
65 black figs
151 green figs
30 heirloom tomatoes
35 plum tomatoes
17 jalapenos
36 cucumbers
8 strawberries
13 sprigs of mint
14 sprigs of basil
41 yellow squash
21 eggplant
28 zucchini
5 bell peppers
50 lines of chives
1 peach (doesn’t really count because while it’s the first fully formed peach we’ve mustered, it wasn’t edible. But it’s our first!)
1 pear (our first!)
3 canteloupes (our first!)
8 honeydews (our firsts! City slickers that we are, we initially thought this was ripening watermelon. Harvested it (ooh: I love claiming I “harvest” anything!) Didn’t know what they are until we cut into one and tasted. They’re tiny, though: the size of my fist. But still good miniatures!)
3 lemon cucumbers (we didn’t plant these this season; they’re last season’s which seeded themselves)
0 plums for the season (because the birds et ‘em all!)


PUBLICATIONS
ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME, poems by Tomaz Salamun, Trans. by Sonja Kravanja (So intelligent. So sly. Intriguing and fabulous read)

ANGLES OF INCIDENTS, poems by Jon Curley (a fabulous ear! Truly wonderful!)

ON A PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS, AD 1960-2012 by Sotere Torregian (admirable life-source/energy!)

* NERVOUS DEVICE, poems by Catherine Wagner

* ARCO IRIS, poems by Sarah Vap

HALF-LIVES, poems by Erica Jong

LIKE THE PIECES OF DRIFTWOOD, poems by Jon Francis

ROPE PAINTINGS, monograph by Darrell Nettles

POSER: MY LIFE IN 23 YOGA POSES, memoir by Claire Dederer (I adored this book!)

MY DOG TULIP, memoir by J.R. Ackerley

CRAZY FOR THE STORM: A MEMOIR FOR SURVIVAL by Norman Ollestad

THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS, essays by Nicholson Baker

THE MERRY RECLUSE: A LIFE IN ESSAYS by Caroline Knapp

MADE FROM SCRATCH: DISCOVERING THE PLEASURES OF A HANDMADE LIFE, memoir by Jenna Woginrich

SHAKE OFF, novel by Mischa Hiller

A WANTED MAN, novel by Lee Child

LAST MAN STANDING, novel by David Baldacci

DIVINE JUSTICE, novel by David Baldacci

SWEEPING UP GLASS, novel by Carolyn Wall

ONE BREATH AWAY, novel by Heather Gudenkauf

MACKENZIE’S PLEASURE, novel by Linda Howard

MACKENZIE’S LEGACY, novel by Linda Howard

ICE, novel by Linda Howard

DEFENDING HIS OWN, novel by Beverly Barton

THE ARRANGEMENT, novel by Joan Wolf


WINES
1998 Clarendon Hills shiraz Hickinbotham Vineyard
2005 Trevor Jones shiraz
2003 Rausan Despagne
2006 Peter Michael "Ma Belle-Fille" Chardonnay
2004 Jones Cabernet NV
2002 Hundred Acre Cabernet
2001 Abreu Madrona Ranch
1998 Australian Domaine Wines The Hattrick McLaren Vale grenache shiraz cabernet
2005 Dutch Henry Hillside rose NV