Love & Sundries is a collection of narrative poems that haunt and entice, break and repair. Keith Montesano, author of Ghost Lights and Scoring the Silent Film, says it best: "In his second collection Love & Sundries, Nicholas Reading balances tragedy and empathy with both fear and wisdom in narrators who often yearn for what they don't quite know how to achieve. Somewhere between the inner-voice of Mack from Cannery Row and the hard-bitten spirit of Richard Hugo, these poems tether themselves to hope amidst the elegiac emptiness of miles of flat land and peripheral characters who turn out to mean much more, where memories are finally forgotten to 'create a future again and again and again tomorrow.'"