Category: Summer Reading 2018

I woke up the last couple of mornings and decided to curl right back up with my cup of coffee and this lovely book of poetry by David Hinton. The poems have a dryness, a quality of emptiness, but one that has a trickling stream of fresh water, and various oases of language and images

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion was in a stack of books a friend was giving away.  I had been wanting to read it, but I knew it would be difficult.  I had seen the documentary, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, and I knew her story.  I had to be prepared

‘An American Marriage’ After the excitement of finding Cynthia Bond’s Ruby, I suspended my judgmental aversion of Oprah’s book club picks and on a whim decided to give another Oprah Book Club 2.0 selections a try. I ordered the book from the public library as soon as Oprah announced it (Sometime in February I think.)

Three of Harryette Mullen’s books of poetry, originally published by very small independent presses, have been gathered into this single volume by Greywolf Press and republished in 2006. I rarely read a book of poetry straight through, but these poems, full of word play and as the publisher says “…the language of fashion and femininity,

What an incredible book.  I am not sure if I *read* this book as much as I *experienced* it.  I feel as though I have been on a week-long retreat to a space somewhat beyond time and reality, though fully encompassing both. In “Nine Gates” Jane Hirshfield takes us on a journey through language, communication,

I CANNOT EXPRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS BOOK AND TV SERIES WAS FOR ME. One of the Instagram accounts I follow that is an integral part of the body positive movement posted about this show and how she had never related more to a character as she did Plum. Luckily the series had just started and

Since the challenge started I have been reading this book and was hoping to write about it once I finished it completely, but it’s all I’ve managed to pick up this week so here we are. Has anyone else read The Golden Notebook? I can’t exactly recall where I heard about it but so far

My husband and I are visiting family in Rhode Island now, and I finished my fourth book of the challenge here. I read Given Up For You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief, by Erin O. White. Erin is a friend and classmate from my MFA program. We were in our first workshop together in

Yes, another book about art in Spain, more assigned reading for the docent program.  This one is focused on painting, and covers only the time period from 1561 to 1828.  Tomlinson makes a distinction between “painting in Spain” and  “any fixed notion of Spanish painting.”  For instance, she asks, should the Italian artists who decorated