on my bookshelf at the moment

I've grabbed some books within the last week or so, with intent to either read them before I go or to take them along to the home state. There seems to be a theme (or two):

• The Urban Hermit: A Memoir by Sam Macdonald (The story of a man who adopts a radically strict lifestyle to get his fiscal and physical shit in order.) 

• Five Men Who Broke My Heart: A Memoir by Susan Shapiro(Married woman is contacted by one, then finds the other four men who had significantly broken her heart, to get a handle on how it all worked.)

• Split: A Memoir of Divorce by Suzanne Finnamore (The story of a woman who, not surprised by her cheating husband's request for a divorce, survives the difficult split with the help of mom & friends.)

• Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield (Music loving shy boy meets music-loving southern girl. They fall in love and impulsively get married, in part because they love music, together. One day, she dies. Now he can't listen to that same music anymore. [Obviously, there's more to it than that.])

• Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions Books) by Nathaniel Tarn (Eco-political protest poetry.)

• Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage (Rock musician poet, angry about war and politics.)

• The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño; translated by Laura Healy (Alternately [sharply] depressing and overtly sexual bilingual poetry by the late Chilean poet Roberto Bolaño.)