Author Archive
Posted in March 16th, 2010
I’m half way through my pile of biographies that I’m reading in March so I’m really right on track for the 75 book challenge. (Sneaking in the third book in the Knit series helped since it was a very quick read.) When I got in the car for a five-hour drive to visit family, I [...]
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Posted in March 14th, 2010
I started to read Bound for Glory AND the biography of Aldo Leopold. I’m about half way through the former but have finished Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki. It was short and I sometimes missed having greater detail about the life of this extraordinary man but I liked the [...]
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Posted in March 14th, 2010
Starting with the 26th photo for the year…
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Posted in March 6th, 2010
I declared March to be Biography Month and have finished my first one: Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray. It was first rate and here’s my review which I’ve also posted at LibraryThing:
I didn’t know much about Woody Guthrie except the myth and a few bits and pieces that [...]
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Posted in January 5th, 2010
I just finished my first Early Reviewer book for LibraryThing: The Cart Before the Corpse by Carolyn McSparren. A mystery set in Appalachian Georgia with a backdrop of carriage racing. I enjoyed it…not great literature but in the same tradition as Janet Evanovich and Diane Mott Davison. You can read my review at LT. Here’s [...]
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Posted in December 30th, 2009
Since I’m not going to finish another book between now and midnight tomorrow, I can report my book count for 2009: 51. That includes both text and audio. The first book I recorded in LibraryThing was A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris. And the last was Why We Believe What We Believe [...]
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Posted in December 16th, 2009
For the first time in a very long time, I went on a road trip and came home with fewer books. I visited my parents and read and then returned two books to my mother: The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman and Knit Two by Kate Jacobs. The former was a sometimes heart-wrenching, [...]
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Posted in December 4th, 2009
Since I last posted, I’ve read and listened to three books and made it half way through another…
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene: An interpretation of the Gnostic Gospel. I also read some of the other gospels in The Essential Gnostic Gospels by Alan Jacobs. These were book group selections. Most of the [...]
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Posted in November 22nd, 2009
At church this morning, we did a chanting meditation to Pachelbel’s Canon. All I could think about was this rant from Rob Paravonian:
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Posted in October 31st, 2009
With my book group’s next meeting looming on Sunday, I finally picked up Switching to Goddess by Jeri Studebaker. I found myself alternating between being irritated by her somewhat flippant, often silly-sounding tone and being impressed by the way she was really saying that the Emperor (that is contemporary religions) really don’t have any clothes. [...]
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