I received The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewers program, and I’m so so grateful that I did. Thank you to LT and to the publisher, Bloomsbury, for the opportunity to read and review this book. As I read the book, I marked the Table of Contents to indicate
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FreeVerse: A Box, A Life
This is from a post I originally published on my blog at MySpace. (I checked the other day, and apparently I haven’t logged into my MySpace account since October 2008. Jeff didn’t know how that could be right, but I know it’s been a LONG, LONG TIME, and I know how the months fly by
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Small confession: this post is more for my benefit than for anyone else, and I apologize. I have a pile of books that I really need to get to soon, and I’m putting the list down here as an extended “note to self,” so that I won’t get sidetracked by something that looks good but
Read on »FreeVerse: “Small Bodies” by Mary Oliver
So often, I think about participating in FreeVerse, a weekly meme hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! on Wednesdays. And so often, Wednesday sneaks up on me and I think, “Darn it, it’s already Wednesday again and I don’t have a poem to post for FreeVerse!” Today, I brought one of my Mary Oliver books to
Read on »Feeling better, thanks to book bargains!
Today at work, I was feeling kind of blue. Parts of my day were somewhat productive, but I also had a difficult request, took quite a while to find a library that owned the right volume of the journal, one that also would hopefully not charge us an arm and leg for a 10- or
Read on »Joining two more Reading Challenges for 2010
There is never never never enough time for me to get all my stuff together. I started a post LAST Friday about a reading challenge I’d decided to join, and here it is, Friday again, and I figured I should just start over, and talk (briefly) about BOTH of the challenges I’m starting, in one
Read on »FreeVerse: Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland
A few weeks ago, I read a book of poems by Eavan Boland called Against Love Poetry. I got it after Thanksgiving 2008, so I’d only had it in my TBR Mountain a little over a year – not bad for me! I attended a poetry reading when I was in Tucson for library school,
Read on »Discovering a mesmerizing novel: Florida
Last spring, I bought two books by a new-to-me author from the clearance shelves at Hastings. Her name is Christine Schutt, and I’d never heard of her. Besides the clearance price of $2.99, I remember two other things that drew me to the novel Florida: first, that’s also the title of a Patty Griffin song
Read on »Book review of Mary Oliver’s Evidence for LibraryThing
(Cross-posting a LibraryThing review. Crossing my fingers that I’ve smoothed out my formatting issues.) I am very grateful to Beacon Press and LibraryThing for the opportunity to review Mary Oliver’s latest book of poetry, Evidence, through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. I’ve been reading Oliver’s poetry for the past few years, and have come to admire
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I am the same as ever I have been.Lying hollow on my pillow, making listsof scars and sins. © All the parts of my life 2008-2015.
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