Books at Home (on the floor next to my bed)
I don't read mysteries, but I love the graphic on the green Penguin.
BELOW:
Can't get into A Gentleman in Moscow--too much description of hotel amenities.
Librarian of Auschwitz & Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) were good, but their subjects were too anxiety-producing for this anxious time (Nazis and big corporations dumping toxic waste, and the Tea Party people who argue against environmental regs).
Will return to them some day, I hope.
Bringing Columbia Home would make a good New Yorker article, but this book is way too reverential toward NASA (written by a NASA guy)--it's hagiographic.
Chuck Palahnuik's Consider This on writing is fun.
Reading about writing is a treat and a swindle:
you feel like you're writing better, . . . without writing!
The Library at Night is a big disappointment. It's where Iturbe, the author of Librarian at Auschwitz, discovered his topic, so I ordered a copy. It's full of half-baked assertions.
Let's Make Something from 1953 is for children: it includes how to make a dart from a piece of wood and a nail--you sharpen the nail with a file to make a good sticking point!
AWAY
As I've started to sort donated books, I'm assembling a "things to do at home" display, for when we reopen June 1.
With a slight macabre twist...
I don't read mysteries, but I love the graphic on the green Penguin.
The Little Wooden Doll is very satisfying:
an old doll is scorned by some horrible children, so the doll's spider friends spin beautiful clothes and hair for her, and her mice friends take her to live with a little girl who is alone all day.
an old doll is scorned by some horrible children, so the doll's spider friends spin beautiful clothes and hair for her, and her mice friends take her to live with a little girl who is alone all day.
BELOW:
Can't get into A Gentleman in Moscow--too much description of hotel amenities.
Librarian of Auschwitz & Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (2016) were good, but their subjects were too anxiety-producing for this anxious time (Nazis and big corporations dumping toxic waste, and the Tea Party people who argue against environmental regs).
Will return to them some day, I hope.
Chuck Palahnuik's Consider This on writing is fun.
Reading about writing is a treat and a swindle:
you feel like you're writing better, . . . without writing!
The Library at Night is a big disappointment. It's where Iturbe, the author of Librarian at Auschwitz, discovered his topic, so I ordered a copy. It's full of half-baked assertions.
Let's Make Something from 1953 is for children: it includes how to make a dart from a piece of wood and a nail--you sharpen the nail with a file to make a good sticking point!
AWAY
As I've started to sort donated books, I'm assembling a "things to do at home" display, for when we reopen June 1.
With a slight macabre twist...
Jonathan Carroll posted on his blog a picture that could make you smile (I think):
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Thanks, TORORO---made me laugh!
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