I am keeping a list of books I have
recently read because of my slightly loose
memory. Post a comment and include
the book you are reading.
September
The Gap by Robert Morgan
"with Julie, Robert Morgan has brought
to life one of the most memorable
women in modern American literature
with the skill that led Fred Chappell to
say "Gap Creek is the work of a master."
What Do We Know by Mary Oliver
Reading Mary Oliver nourishment for the soul.
You do not have to be good,
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.......Dream Work, Mary Oliver
Run by Ann Patchett
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
recently read because of my slightly loose
memory. Post a comment and include
the book you are reading.
September
The Gap by Robert Morgan
"with Julie, Robert Morgan has brought
to life one of the most memorable
women in modern American literature
with the skill that led Fred Chappell to
say "Gap Creek is the work of a master."
What Do We Know by Mary Oliver
Reading Mary Oliver nourishment for the soul.
You do not have to be good,
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.......Dream Work, Mary Oliver
Run by Ann Patchett
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
My friend Mary Lynn tried to add a book she likes.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to add it.
Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart
Another book read by Mary Lynn, looks good.
ReplyDeleteMidwife of Venice by Roberta Rich.
Hannah Levi is known throughout sixteenth-century Venice for her skill in midwifery. When a Christian count appears at Hannah''s door in the Jewish ghetto imploring her to attend his labouring wife, who is nearing death, Hannah is forced to make a dangerous decision. Not only is it illegal for Jews to render medical treatment to Christians, it's also punishable by torture and death.
Embers of War (finished) and it's predecessor - Choosing War (in process), by Frederik Logevall.
ReplyDeleteFinished Absalom! Absalom! (Wm. Faulkner)
Just finished
ReplyDeleteWhat I Learned When I Almost Died
by Chris Licht
"How A Maniac TV Producer put down his blackberry and started to live his life."
Quick, interesting read though a little unnerving as he probably had a rupture of an anneurysm; these run in my family! Lesson learned....Don't Sweat The Small Stuff!
Raising Orion by Lesley Choyce, Canadian
ReplyDelete"At its core, Raising Orion is a novel of discovery, and a chronicle of intense individualism, where believing you can set the stars in the sky will make it so."
How can you not love a book when you read "A raven bobbed his head up and down and coughed out syllables that sounded like a dolphin trying to laugh."
Reading "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Lisa Randall - Harvard physicist explains everything...learned about it from David Wooddall-Gainey. Great read.
ReplyDeleteI may need to check this book out.
DeleteSomeone who explains EVERYTHING!
The Sum of Our Days, A Memoir by Isabel Allende
ReplyDeleteA fascinating, profoundly moving, laugh out loud
memoir by the matriarch of an ever expanding family.
You must absolutly reading "The curius incident of the dog in the night-time" write by Mark Haddon.
ReplyDeleteThis book helps to understand autism.
It's the autistic boy which tells.
It's a touching book.
Moon Over Marrekech
ReplyDeleteA Memoir of Loving Too Deeply In A Foreign Land
by Nazneen Sheikh
Sheikh, born in Pakistan, travelled through Texas and at 20, moved to Canada with her first of "three", well, two legal, husbands.
I wanted to read this book because last
year I went to Morroco and stayed in Marrekech.
"The book is a tangle of love stories and eventual deceptions: one with her second husband ("He is a unicorn leaping from the pages of a book of myths."); one with Marrakech ("It was like a page out of Arabian Nights had come alive."); and, the last with her third - and so far, final - husband (a Moroccan guide who seduced her with the spirituality and exoticism of the Red City itself)."
All I could think of after I finished this memoir is this woman never settled for less!
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacCleod.
ReplyDeleteAlistair MacLeod, a Canadian author spins a tale both profound and comic, tragic and familial. He weaves a story of the clan MacDonald which hales from the highlands of Scotland in the 1700's then crosses the sea to settle in Cape Breton, NS. "My hope is constant in thee, clan Donald," words that promise a fierce family loyalty, are woven throughout the novel spanning from Scotland, to Cape Breton then west toward southern and northern Ontario, all
places dear to my heart! My mom was a Beaton from Cape Breton, eh?
This book holds a place on the re-read shelf.
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
ReplyDeleteIsabel Allende writes---"A beautifully written and haunting story of survival and innocence shattered, of friendship, death and redemption and love of the land...Please, please don't miss it!" This books speaks from the bush in Northern Ontario in the voice of Niska,a Cree medicine woman and from the brutality of trench warfare in WWI in the voice of Niska's nephew Xavier, a soldier. In the midst of such brutality is redemption possible?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
ReplyDeleteJeanette Winterson
This title is a mother's response to
her sixteen year old daughter who told her mother,
"I love girls."
"Funny, acute,fierce and celebratory,a tough minded
search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home
and a mother."
The Four Agreements
ReplyDeleteDon Miguel Ruiz
Be impeccable with your word.
Don't take anything personally.
Don't make assumptions.
Always do your best.