Keeping Your Focus:a Happiness Project
Rubin, Gretchen (2009). The Happiness Project. New York: Harper. ISBN: 9780061583254 I seem to have a lot in common with Gretchen Rubin. Writing. Living in an urban setting. A tendency to be irritable. Would usually rather read than do almost anything else. A sense of wasting my life, letting small details of getting through the day [...]
Book Mania: LibraryThing
OBSESSED currently with LibraryThing. It is an online book cataloging service with social media applications that combines a love of books with a mania for organizing. It allows all of us to indulge in our librarian fantasies without actually having to get a Library Science degree. I found out about Library Thing last May and [...]
Writer’s Best Friend, Reader’s Best Friend
Koontz, Dean (2009). A Big Little Life: a memoir of a joyful dog. New York: Hyperion. ISBN: 9781401323523. Why do so many of us sit cold-hearted, distant when we read or watch a scene of a person’s death, vioolent or valiant, but weep copiously at description of a dog’s demise? It took Dean Koontz’s memoir [...]
Connected. A greener life, rural or not
Dickson Wright, Clarissa & Scott, Johnny. (2005). A Greener Life: the modern country compendium. London: David & Charles. North American edition. ISBN: 978-0-7153-2750-0. One of the perennial appeals of the country lifestyle is the sense of living simpler, healthier, more in tune with the planet. The idea of self-sufficiency holds great appeal for those [...]
Day the Falls Stood Still: A Test of Female Faith and Strength
Buchanan, Cathy Marie. (2009). The Day the Falls Stood Still. New York: Voice/Hyperion. ISBN: 978-1-4103-4097-1 320 pages. Fiction: Novel: Historical Fiction Gist: A young woman grows to maturity in Niagara Falls during and after World War I. She endures loss in many forms, testing her faith and her strength. Based loosely on real life events. [...]
2007 Pulitzer: The Road is realistic rendition of a common nightmare
McCarthy, Cormac.(2006). The Road. New York: Knopf. 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction Everything in The Road is reduced to the minimum; the language and writing style are stripped along with the lives of the characters. No linguistic decoration or extraneous description, luxury or sense of comfort. No neat tidy chapters or markers to [...]
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