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I found enlightenment in the Pacific Northwest
In May, I happily stumbled on the secret to enlightenment when I attended the Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Seattle and vacationed with my family in the Cascades. It all started...
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A housekeeper, a professor, a boy, a baseball game
The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses...
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First sentences, Junot Diaz
Selected first sentences, from short stories in This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz: “I’m not a bad guy.” “Nilda was my brother’s girlfriend. This is how all these stories begin.” “You, Yunior, have...
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Bestsellers Tell What Possesses Us – Telegraph Avenue
This past fall and early winter there was a perfect storm of top authors publishing new books. I wanted to read a handful of them to see what possesses some of our best creative minds and our popular...
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Hemingway on life and death, love and war
I believe that basically you write for two people: yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and...
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If you want to be lifted up, read Kent Haruf
She looked at the two old brothers…. I want you to think about taking this girl in. They stared at her. You’re fooling, Harold said. No, Maggie said. I am not. They were dumbfounded. They looked at...
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Books to read in 2014
Here’s my to-read list for 2014. It’s incomplete, always changing, and I’m sure I won’t get to all of these, not by a long shot, but it’s a convenient list when I’m choosing my next book. You may see a...
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Winners of the Literary Blog Hop Are…
Lynne Clark at Two Reads and Marie Stone are the Literary Blog Hop winners at Books Can Save a Life. Many thanks to Judith at Leeswammes for hosting this great event, and for all of you who stopped by...
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The Underground Railroad
“She never got Royal to tell her about the men and women who made the underground railroad. The ones who excavated a million tons of rock and dirt, toiled in the belly of the earth for the deliverance...
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