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From: Matthew Lemon <y@yulqen.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:24:13 +0000
Subject: Swapped around some templates and added a book review about W Stevens

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 themes/problematic/layouts/partials/reading.html   | 26 ---------------------
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 delete mode 100644 themes/problematic/layouts/partials/reading.html

diff --git a/content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md b/content/reading/books/the_whole_harmonium_the_life_of_wallace_stevens.md
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+---
+title: "The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens"
+date: 2024-02-13T22:58:33Z
+draft: false
+daily_read: false
+type: "reading/books"
+tags: ["poetry"]
+summary: "A biography of a poet whose poetry can be so difficult that Frank Skinner seems yet to know how best to cover him in his poetry podcast (February 2024)."
+---
+
+I am a fantastically slow reader.
+I bought this book in summer of 2023 and as of February 2024, I am on page 88.
+Not that this is not a good book: it is a good book.
+I put it down for several months.
+A caesura, but a recoverable one.
+
+I am enjoying reading about Stevens' life in the early 20th century and the feel and smell of this nice hardback book.
+Reading about a literary figure and great poet who led a "boring" life, (Wallace being an insurance man).
+But he knew [William Carlos Williams](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow) and that [French guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp), who was a pioneer of Dada.
+
+He drank.
+He smoked.
+He wrote poems.
+
+How good a poet was Stevens?
+
+Why has Frank Skinner not covered him yet?
diff --git a/layouts/partials/reading.html b/layouts/partials/reading.html
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+
+<h3>Books</h3>
+
+Certainly not reviews, just scattered and inconsequential thoughts - when I actually read one.
+
+<ul id="reading">
+  {{ range where site.RegularPages "Type" "reading/books" }}
+  <li>
+    <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>: {{ .Summary }}
+  </li>
+  {{ end }}
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Reading by day</h3>
+
+This is intended to be an ongoing log of longer-form material. Not sure if I will continue to list it by day - that might be over ambitious.
+
+<ul id="reading">
+  {{ range where (where site.RegularPages "Section" "reading") "Params.daily_read"  true }} 
+  <li>
+    <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
+    : {{ .Summary }}
+  </li>
+  {{ end }}
+</ul>
+
diff --git a/themes/problematic/layouts/partials/reading.html b/themes/problematic/layouts/partials/reading.html
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-
-<h3>Books</h3>
-
-Certainly not reviews, just scattered and inconsequential thoughts - when I actually read one.
-
-<ul id="reading">
-  {{ range where site.RegularPages "Type" "reading/books" }}
-  <li>
-    <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>: {{ .Summary }}
-  </li>
-  {{ end }}
-</ul>
-
-<h3>Reading by day</h3>
-
-This is intended to be an ongoing log of longer-form material. Not sure if I will continue to list it by day - that might be over ambitious.
-
-<ul id="reading">
-  {{ range where (where site.RegularPages "Section" "reading") "Params.daily_read"  true }} 
-  <li>
-    <a href="{{ .Permalink }}">{{ .Title }}</a>
-    : {{ .Summary }}
-  </li>
-  {{ end }}
-</ul>
-
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