Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Listening is an act of love
I just finished reading Dave Isay's book of essays taken from the thousands of hours of recordings at the story corps project. The stories are funny and full of pathos, made me laugh and cry and feel great empathy for the people telling their stories. If you read one book this summer, let this be it! I had this for weeks from the library, wasn't sure if I would read it and almost took it back, then I finally opened it yesterday and couldn't put it down! So glad I didn't let this slip through my fingers!
Monday, July 4, 2011
June reading
Books- June 2011
1. Christmas at the mysterious bookshop edited by Otto Penzler
2. Simply from scratch by Alicia Bessette
3. Murder on the rocks by Karen MacInerney
4. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
5. Then by Morris Gleitzman (young adult)
6. The widow's war by Sally Gunning
7. Nineteen minutes by Jodi Piccoult (audio book)
8. Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parkee and the rise and fall of the Comanches the most powerful Indian tribe in American history by S. C. Gwynne
9. Dixie divas by Virginia Brown
10. Life is so good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
11. Crunch time by Diane Mott Davidson
12. Daniel Derondq by George Elliot
1. Short stories by mystery writers that were commissioned by Otto Penzler one each year for several years at Christmastime. Each story is set all or in part at the mysterious book store.
2. A love story and a story of grief, explores issues of broken families and friends that become our family, I was comforted by this book.
3. Formulaic mystery set at a bed and breakfast on an island in Maine, fun to read, nothing special!
4. A complicated story of a man who has two families, each including a daughter of roughly the same age, one daughter knows about the other and one does not, told in the voices of each daughter. Very well done.
5. Very well done, story of Jewish children who are running from the Nazis. Heartbreaking, and hard to read.
6. A kindle special recommended by two friends, Libby is at the mercy of her parsimonious son-in-law when he husband drowns. She finds a way to make the law work in her favor so she can stay in her house.
7. Another timely novel by Piccoult, well-written, bur some of the plot elements, especially the end were a little shaky, much easier to listen to her books than to read them.
8. Quanah Parker's mother was a white woman who was captured by the Comanches when she was young and then married a chief, and had three children, Quanah became the first and only chief of the Comanche tribe. Great read about the end of the Comanche nation.
9. Another formulaic mystery with a little bit of romance thrown in. I would not read another one by this author.
10. This book blew me away. If you read one book from this list, this is the one to choose. Thanks to my friend Kathy for recommending this.
11. I love Davidson's stories of Goldy the caterer who is always finding dead bodies and getting into trouble. But, it does seem that maybe Goldy could leaner a lesson or two and not meddle quite so much!
12. Very long and written with an old world style that makes it hard to read, but filled with pithy statements about life, particularly women's place in the world. Worth the time and effort.
1. Christmas at the mysterious bookshop edited by Otto Penzler
2. Simply from scratch by Alicia Bessette
3. Murder on the rocks by Karen MacInerney
4. Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
5. Then by Morris Gleitzman (young adult)
6. The widow's war by Sally Gunning
7. Nineteen minutes by Jodi Piccoult (audio book)
8. Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parkee and the rise and fall of the Comanches the most powerful Indian tribe in American history by S. C. Gwynne
9. Dixie divas by Virginia Brown
10. Life is so good by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman
11. Crunch time by Diane Mott Davidson
12. Daniel Derondq by George Elliot
1. Short stories by mystery writers that were commissioned by Otto Penzler one each year for several years at Christmastime. Each story is set all or in part at the mysterious book store.
2. A love story and a story of grief, explores issues of broken families and friends that become our family, I was comforted by this book.
3. Formulaic mystery set at a bed and breakfast on an island in Maine, fun to read, nothing special!
4. A complicated story of a man who has two families, each including a daughter of roughly the same age, one daughter knows about the other and one does not, told in the voices of each daughter. Very well done.
5. Very well done, story of Jewish children who are running from the Nazis. Heartbreaking, and hard to read.
6. A kindle special recommended by two friends, Libby is at the mercy of her parsimonious son-in-law when he husband drowns. She finds a way to make the law work in her favor so she can stay in her house.
7. Another timely novel by Piccoult, well-written, bur some of the plot elements, especially the end were a little shaky, much easier to listen to her books than to read them.
8. Quanah Parker's mother was a white woman who was captured by the Comanches when she was young and then married a chief, and had three children, Quanah became the first and only chief of the Comanche tribe. Great read about the end of the Comanche nation.
9. Another formulaic mystery with a little bit of romance thrown in. I would not read another one by this author.
10. This book blew me away. If you read one book from this list, this is the one to choose. Thanks to my friend Kathy for recommending this.
11. I love Davidson's stories of Goldy the caterer who is always finding dead bodies and getting into trouble. But, it does seem that maybe Goldy could leaner a lesson or two and not meddle quite so much!
12. Very long and written with an old world style that makes it hard to read, but filled with pithy statements about life, particularly women's place in the world. Worth the time and effort.
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