Category: Summer Reading 2018

I am a bit faster at reading than writing.  This makes 10 books read and shared during the summer challenge. Kent Haruf is new to me.  The novel came from a friend who had many many books dropped off at her house while recovering (for three months) from a broken knee and hip—she’s finally mobile

I have always enjoyed a good mystery, and Josephine Tey is a master at her craft.  Robert Bernard wrote in his introduction to the novel, “Tey belonged to the Golden Age of British crime writing (roughly speaking, 1920-1950), and her place in the pantheon of mystery writers is unassailable.” Tey’s tale takes place at a

I took a little time to revisit my blog posts from the last ten weeks, and after tallying can say I did in fact read 10 books in 10 weeks. Yahoo! I wasn’t sure since there were several I picked up and put down since we began ten weeks ago. I even read an 11th

The poet Alice Notley, whose work is included in the ModPo syllabus, wrote this epic poem. A female hero replaces the typical male heroic figure undertaking a Quest—a feminist epic, published in 1996. The epic is set in a multi-layered underground: a subway system in which everyone is trapped, including Alette, a deeper system of

So, this book was another gift ~~ this time from my husband, Chris.  He knows that I love poetry, and that I also spend quite a bit of time in spiritual study and practice.  So, what a perfect combination in this book.  And then, to realize it was edited by Jane Hirshfield was an unexpected

The Milk Lady of Bangalore will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about cows in Bangalore.  Shoba Narayan writes about food, travel and culture.  This is an account of the return to her native India with her husband and two children.  She and her husband studied in the U.S. and began raising a

A friend was downsizing her library and passed this book on to me.  It is a page turner!  The story is a true firsthand account of a young (late 20’s) woman’s adventure preparing for and crossing the outback with a dog and three camels.  Davidson starts out with virtually no money, works in a bar, and

This book has been sitting on my shelf for years.  I read part of it for a course on Horney, Freud and Jung and knew that someday I wanted to read the entire volume.  I picked it up because I recently watched a fascinating documentary, The Century of the Self, which describes the influence of

  Last week, a neighbor pressed into my hands this book which she had checked out at the library. We use different library systems, and mine doesn’t have it. So, this became my Week 9 read. Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker is a historical novel about Elizabeth Keckley who was born a slave, bought her freedom with

While hanging out in the foothills of Sequoia National Park this weekend I read this collection of Marianne Moore’s poetry. The introduction is excellent, and I’d recommend reading it before diving into her work. Reading this collection gave me an appreciate for the complexity in Moore’s work. I learned from the introduction that her poem