Author: meredith

I finished each of these books in one sitting, which has taken a bit of the pressure off of getting through the challenge (!) … especially since I am now involved in a Wallace Stevens book about reality and the imagination- I am loving it, but it is pretty dense and taking me forever to

So, remember how I mentioned in my last post about Steppenwolf that some nuggets of wisdom might come from the intense experience of reading that book?  Well, like a jagged rock that is smoothed over by ocean waves, these two new books provided a path to integrate that intensity into my system..  a sort of

Well, wow.  This book was not what I expected, yet perhaps I should have known something wild was in store for me.  I first discovered Hermann Hesse in college, a friend recommended that I read “Siddhartha” and that book changed my life.  Hesse’s writing took me to a place that I thought only I knew,

I finished this sweet little book in a day.  Truth be told, I had a different week 3 book, but it is a slow- go, and I am really trying to keep up and on track this time around- so I decided to slip this little red book into the midst.  And I am so

I loved this book.  The kind of love where I would do anything to distract myself for a few minutes in order to just not finish reading it.  Make a cup of tea.  Straighten up the coffee table.  Move my shoes from the living room to their appropriate place by the front door….  All just

So, I brought three books with me on my vacation.  I read snippets of my Thoreau book, I read pages of my novel, Beautiful Ruins (which I am loving by the way), but the book that I completed and re-read several times was a book of poems by Elizabeth Willis, called Address. Right off the

Ok- well, I have spent the last several weeks ordering and re-ordering my books to decide what I would like to read for our challenge this summer..  My teenage son just finished school, and we are shortly getting in the car for our annual trek to Maine, where I will have plenty of time to

Needless to say, I have been at loose ends trying to keep my head in a book these past few weeks.  But, I have been reading bits and pieces of things that have been adding up to a few pages-  I am not sure if I will make it to the 2017 mark at the

Hello all!  I attempted to start the reading challenge last winter, and quickly realized that the events of the year (personal and universal) would distract me from being able to sit down and stay committed.  So, I am here to try re-gain a little balance, and re-connect to some healthy reading patterns. As some of

I started the challenge with a book that I am most certainly incapable of finishing in one sitting- hopefully I will get through it before the challenge is over at all!  It is an exquisitely beautiful meditation on Beauty by Celtic mystic, John O’Donohue. To be perfectly honest, I chose this to counteract…  provide a