All of you are invited to post a comment, even if you’re only reading are baseball scores. While you’re at it, tell me a story about it—that you came across the book in the dime-bin at the used book store the day you were looking for a book on re-caulking your bathtub, that you’re reading it because your spouse is dragging you to a lecture on the history of presidential rhetoric, that you’re reading it because it had a cool cover or because you’re on a beach in Florida and wanted a smutty romance. Whatever. All of you, now: That includes you, stranger-in-Germany-who-reads-my-blog.
In the works right now for me are:
Come Now to the Window by Ann Iverson
Poems put out by the Laurel Poetry Collective, a group to which my thesis advisor belongs. I got the book at Garrison Keillor’s new bookstore below Nina’s Coffee Shop on Cathedral Hill the day I skipped work. I love that they support so many local authors there, and I bought another book by a friend of mine. I wanted to show how important it is for bookstores, especially locally owned ones, to support us writer-folk. And Ann Iverson, I believe, got her MFA from my University.
In the works right now for me are:
Come Now to the Window by Ann Iverson
Poems put out by the Laurel Poetry Collective, a group to which my thesis advisor belongs. I got the book at Garrison Keillor’s new bookstore below Nina’s Coffee Shop on Cathedral Hill the day I skipped work. I love that they support so many local authors there, and I bought another book by a friend of mine. I wanted to show how important it is for bookstores, especially locally owned ones, to support us writer-folk. And Ann Iverson, I believe, got her MFA from my University.
Invisible Acts of Power by Caroline Myss
I finished the archetype book, and I’m on to this one, which is shorter. It’s about how giving and doing acts of service create an impact—both literally and energetically for the universe. She corresponds good acts with various chakra energies. It’s fascinating.
Fringe (et. al.): If you get the audio books, there’s no solicitation to go to a lecture. AND, all her lectures are available on audio book for free at the library. It’s all so much easier to understand when she’s talking about it vernacular-style.
I finished the archetype book, and I’m on to this one, which is shorter. It’s about how giving and doing acts of service create an impact—both literally and energetically for the universe. She corresponds good acts with various chakra energies. It’s fascinating.
Fringe (et. al.): If you get the audio books, there’s no solicitation to go to a lecture. AND, all her lectures are available on audio book for free at the library. It’s all so much easier to understand when she’s talking about it vernacular-style.
The Peace Book by Todd Parr
This is a children’s book I bought for my baby friend Ellis for his first birthday. I got it at Café of the Americas, a multi-language, multi-cultural book store, when I was shopping for a kids book of rain-forest poems for SA’s niece. It’s about how peace is more than the absence of violence, it’s about making new friends, helping others, the freedom to move, and compassion. I love it, and I want my little Ellis friend to have it as one of his very first reads.
This is a children’s book I bought for my baby friend Ellis for his first birthday. I got it at Café of the Americas, a multi-language, multi-cultural book store, when I was shopping for a kids book of rain-forest poems for SA’s niece. It’s about how peace is more than the absence of violence, it’s about making new friends, helping others, the freedom to move, and compassion. I love it, and I want my little Ellis friend to have it as one of his very first reads.
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Thanks for the idea about the audio books and lectures. I'll try it!
I have 'Teacher Man' on my shelf. It's been there for almost a year now. Judging from the cover, it looks like a very fine book.
My goal is to actually start reading it sometime this month.
I'm reading "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett. A good friend sent me this about a year ago, sure that I would just love it. I read about 50 pages, didn't get into it, and put it aside. Never one to completely abandon a book, though, I picked it up again a couple weeks ago to give it another shot, and now I'm nearing the finish. Still not loving it, but I'm a stubborn bugger ;)
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I just read Season of the Body by Brenda Miller and Willow Room, Green Door by Deborah Keenan. In one week I plan to read the package of a family size bag of cheetos. (cheetoes?)
Never mind. Why would I read the package? It would just make me feel bad.
I have been reading student papers and more student papers and more student papers and a few blogs. I have Brian's thesis in the works for this weekend. I'm very excited about that.
I am reading:
Homebuying For Dummies
Bigfoot! The True Story Of Apes In America
and about to start Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion.
Am wishing I could read Dandelion Wine for the first time again.
Sigh.
i'm reading 'Shadowplay' by Tad Williams. it's the second book in a series of his. it's alright, a little odd. there is a bard in the story so maybe i can say there's poetry. otherwise it has little literary merit.
I am reading 'Rules of the Wild' by Marciano.I picked it up randomly a couple years ago and love how foreign I feel when I read it.
I kept it because of this quote:
"I thought, if you're really going to live in Africa, you have to be able to look at it and say, this is the way of love, down this road: look at it hard; this is where it's going to lead you. I think you will know what I mean if I tell you love is worth nothing until it's been tested by its own defeat. I felt I was being asked to love without being afraid of the consequences. I realized that love, even if it ends in defeat, gives you a kind of honor; but without love, you have no honor at all." Rian Malan
-Kate
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