Booked (and Printed): January 2026
Booked (and Printed) January 2026 Wowzers, January was frigid! If the mercury inched above freezing it was a fleeting affair. The negative temps piled up as quickly as my firewood dwindled. Although it made for a perfect reading month. And I did okay with four books, a solitary short story, and two philosophical essays by the brilliant Bertrand Russell. But my left eye is still a roadblock: I can’t read for as long as I once did and my reading speed has suffered, too. But let’s stop with the whining and get to what I did read. The month started with Michael Richards’s fabulous memoir, ENTRANCES AND EXITS (2024). Richards, of course, is best known for his unforgettable performance as Cosmo Kramer on that most ’90s of the 1990s television scene, Seinfeld . Richards doesn’t mire his story with name-dropping or “look how brilliant I am” vignettes. Instead, he reveals himself as a flawed introvert seeking redemption and understand...
