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Showing posts with label Life Changing Book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Changing Book. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2023

Fen, Bog & Swamp

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 Annie Proulx, "Fen, Bog & Swamp", Scribner, 2022. pp. 100-101 I learned to read from recognizing the skeleton letters of word...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Factor Separation Into the Divorce Equation

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 Emily O. Gravett, "Factor Separation Into the Divorce Equation," [Modern Love] New York Times,  Oct. 16, 2022 p. ST6.  Monomaniac...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Forget the Book on Impractical Boundaries

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 Sophia Ortega.  "Forget the Book on Impractical Boundaries"  (Modern Love], New York Times, October 2, 2022 p. ST6. Around this t...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

The Things I Would Never Do

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Cailin Flanagin, "The Things I Would Never Do" Atlantic Dec 23, 2021 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/cancer-tee...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

The Stranger I Become

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 Katherine Coles, "The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking and Writing",  Turtle Point Press, 2021. The author gratefully ackno...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Desert Vision

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 Helen Macdonald, "Desert Vision," New York Times Magazine,  Oct. 17, 2021 pp. 55- Villeneuve was 14 when he first saw the book, a...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Books that Changed My Life Weren't Very Good

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 Danika Ellis "The Books that Changed My Life Weren't Very Good," Book Riot  April 209, 2021. https://bookriot.com/books-that-...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Can You Please Help Me Get Out of Prison

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 Emily Bazelon, "Can You Please Help Me Get Out of Prison?", New York Times Magazine, July 4, 2021, pp 27-33, 47, 49. It started w...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

For a Romance Novelist, a Love Worth Writing About

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 Alix Strauss, "For a Romance Novelist, a Love Worth Writing About," (Vows) New York Times, June 6, 2021, p. ST10.  In March 201, ...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

User Manuals

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 Louis Menand, "User Manuals: Charting a  Nation's Soul through its Best Sellers," New Yorker, June 7, 2021 pp. 76-81. These s...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Rereading Lolita

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 Ian Frazier, "Rereading Lolita" New Yorker, December 14, 2020 pp. 30-35. As an unformed kid, I envied his self-assurance and Olym...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Shelf Lives

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 Min Jin Lee, "Shelf Lives", New York Times Book Review,  April 18, 2021 p. 1, 20-21.      On a day off, Uncle John went to the Ne...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Elizabeth Acevedo

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 "Elizabeth Acevedo" [By the Book], New York Times Book Review , April 1, 2021, p 6.  Most people describe their childhood reading...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

By Observing the "Minutae of Life," Cleary Created the Universal Human Experience.

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 Elisabth Egan, "By Observing th "Minutae of Life," Cleary Created the Universal Human Experience" New York Times ,  Mar...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Processed Meats

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 Nicole Walker. Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster. Torrey House Press, 2021. When I lived in Portland, I worked...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Inside the List

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 Elisabeth Egan. Inside the List. [Angie Thomas].  New York Times Book Review , February 7, 2021, p.20.      Suddenly, my editor texts to t...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

This Election, Mom Knows Best

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 Bret Stephens. This Election, Mom Knows Best . New York Times.  Nov. 3, 2020. p.A31. The culture that's been cheapened is the one she e...
Friday, June 26, 2020

The Time is Now for Us to Sit and Listen

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Sharlee Mullins Glen. "The Time is Now for Us to Sit and Listen." Deseret News . June 25, 2020, p. A6.  One evidence of the striki...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Ask Ann Cannon

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Ann Cannon, "Ask Ann Cannon." Salt Lake Tribune , 5/31/2020 p. D6. Dear Ann Cannon, I find that during this time of social dist...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Ann Pratchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now

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Ann Pratchett, Ann Patchett on Why We Need Life-Changing Books Right Now new York Times, March 30, 2020. Online      Kate [ DiCamillo ]...