Category: Winter Reading 2019

I pulled two more books from my shelf to reread, and it was a treat.  Griffin and Sabine know each other only through letters and postcards.  Their odd correspondence begins when Griffin, who lives in London, receives a note from Sabine requesting one of Griffin’s fish postcards.  Griffin is an artist who sells his own

I think this is the last of my Rae stack and either I am getting more in tune with her writing or this one just happens to make a lot more sense to me. For instance, this collection showed me her pattern in turning the ends of her poems. Many of her poems have a

Who can count pages when browsing poetry? Bumped into this Emily D poem in my adventures —

I think the word young is not necessary in the title, though I respect the purpose. The illustrations are wonderful in this book and brought the poems to life. I love books like this that have visuals with poetry – sometimes I can be pretty dense and totally miss the idea of a poem when

Wow.  I can almost stop right there with my review.  I finished this book in two days, and can honestly say that never have I read a book that I would immediately recommend to anyone and everyone.  This book was so incredibly personal and touching, I almost felt like I was invading the author’s privacy. 

This book is many things, but mostly it is a celebration of storytelling. It is Brian Doyle’s imagining of the tale Robert Louis Stevenson might have written about a brief period he spent in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved Fanny. Rooming at the house of John and Mary Carson he tells a warm

  The Book of The Damned was found in the garbage at the library – was headed for the dump! So glad I rescued this strange book from 1919 – it is about data that science has disregarded and moved on from. The book is a long report of all kinds of weird scientific observations

This is another book that my son chose for me.  I am not sure if he goes by the covers, reads the back of the books, or if it is just plain intuition, but he always finds something that carries a message that I need to hear.  And, in this book, hearing is basically the

I read this book because I heard the author on BBC Radio 3 during a program with a title something like “Insomnia and Writing.”  I liked the way Benjamin expressed her thoughts on the subject, so when her book was mentioned I made a note to look for it at the library.  There it was

I finished listening to this book yesterday.  Must get it back to the library quickly because there is a queue of people waiting for it, as I waited for it before them. This book is nominally about the devastating fire at the Los Angeles Central Library in 1986, on the same day as the Chernobyl