I have heard several interesting interviews which have led me to order three books. All the interviews are archived on the Democracy Now website. First, I heard Timothy Snyder talk about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century. He makes succinct connections between today and the totalitarianism of the Twentieth Century. It’s
I finished revisiting this old friend, Touching Peace, while flying to Chicago to visit a friend for a few days. Have you ever been packing and decide you’ll never finish your read so you don’t bring another book? Then, in a miraculous turn of events, you finish your book and then you are shocked you have
To kick off this summer challenge, I wanted something short to get me in the mood of reading. There are so many time-consuming tasks in my life (as I am sure with you all) that sometimes I get intimidated by a hefty page number. This e-book was even shorter than advertised. It seems my Bergen
Well, staring down my stack I posted on Sunday hasn’t stopped me from discovering my 6th book for the reading session! Well, actually, my 7th. Since I’ve written here, I started listening to Middlemarch by George Eliot during my arduous data curating sessions each morning. Ah, the troubles of being a reader… From this week’s NYer:
But it’s just a start. I’m pretty sure I’m going to swap out some of these books, because once again, I have too many other books that have been staring at me from the bookshelf for months or years and are telling me to read them immediately, if not sooner. One project I “bookmarked” for
From left to right– The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium by Denis Johnson is one I heard about from Joseph Massey (a poet who joins us at ModPo once a year). I am excited to check out a new poet. Next, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr documents Emily Dickinson’s
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
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) recently published a body of work collectively called Lynching in America. It includes some audio interviews and a short documentary called Uprooted. I watched this for starters- it is less than 10 minutes. I will look forward to listening to the stories as well but wanted to get up this post before
I read poetry pretty much everyday, at any time when I have a few minutes to myself. I think I may have mentioned in a previous post that I also rip pages out of POETRY magazine and send them off to far flung or nearby friends in the mail. Here are some poems I’ve found
Odd Fellows Hall in Davis, Calif. My husband and I have jumped back into helping with our local public radio station, KDRT, where the grass roots grow. Earlier this month, we helped with a show including headliner Ross Hammond who is a local guitar legend of Sacramento. We set up a table and chat with folks
Seasonal Reading 