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Recommended by: Marissa Lingen The title sounded familiar and I thought I read it as a child, but the story itself didn’t ring any bells. Published in 1957, the book features two half-grown kids interacting with two elderly people living in abandoned summer homes, surrounded by lots of nature and lots of kindness. Portia visits her cousin [...] Recommended by: Spirituality Bookgroup. This novel about convention, betrayal, growing up, and finding center is filled with wisdom and grace. Ronit grew up in a tiny, insular Jewish Orthodox congregation within London. She is the rebellious daughter of their revered Rabbi. Aided by her father’s sending her to an American university, she has escaped [...] Subtitled “A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage,” this is a sequel to Eat, Pray, Love. I was expecting an exploration of emotional commitment as detailed as the exploration of transformation, self-discovery, and healing in Eat, Pray, Love. Instead, Committed documents the political institution of marriage. In Linchpin, Seth Godin mentions that Elizabeth Gilbert printed out [...] Recommended by: Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s past books. “The Lacuna” is both epic and personal, ranging across countries and decades and historic events, and also documenting the details of a child’s life. The point-of-view character, Harrison William Shepherd, is unwanted by his father and only haphazardly cared for by his alcoholic self-centered mother. The book starts [...] Recommended by: a friend in Tifton, GA. Janie Hopwood creates a colorful panorama of characters and events in this historical novel about her grandmother Rena Beck’s boarding house. When Rena Beck’s husband died, leaving her a house but nothing else, she decided to take in boarders in order to provide for herself and her three unmarried [...] Recommended by: childhood memories After reading Finn Family Moomintroll recently, I was inspired to seek out Moominland Midwinter, which I also vaguely remembered from childhood. It’s a quick read, and contrasts quite a bit with the earlier book. The mood is bleaker, as befits a northern winter, and the relationships between characters are more superficial and troubled. [...] Recommended by: Ursula Le Guin, while reviewing “The True Deceiver” I stumbled across Finn Family Moomintroll in my elementary school’s library as a child, and didn’t really know what to make of it, but loved the image of the snow falling, and the creatures curling up safely for the winter. Re-reading it now, I still love the first [...] Recommended by: Cofax This layered novel combines plot-driven swashbuckling adventure with a more cerebral battle over the contents and authorship of the historical record. In the first layer of story, Sara, a proficient rare-book restorer, is absorbed by her work on a sixteenth century manuscript allegedly by a Spanish monk, to the point of ignoring the military man [...] John Gould, prolific columnist and writer from small-town Maine, expounds on his life in a retirement home as a nonagenarian. The textured Maine vocabulary and speech rhythms come through clearly, whether he is documenting his efforts to get some fresh air at night in his new home, or recounting stories from his childhood. The sense of times gone [...] This story of young Bod Owens growing up in a graveyard sparkles with inviting details and action on every page, drawing me into reading it while I was supposed to be doing other things. I enjoyed the gradual revelations about his caretakers, and the sturdy, matter-of-fact ethics that Bod learns from them. Like any good fairy [...] |
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