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Monthly Archives: October 2009
The Divine Conspiracy
How do I talk about this book? Or maybe it’s more accurate to ask, how do I talk about anything but this book? It has a way of getting into your thought life and coming to mind no matter what is under discussion. Summarizing it is harder. It’s a book about “rediscovering our hidden life … Continue reading
The Portent
…[We] began to find that we doubted a great deal of what seemed to have happened to us. It was as if the gates of the unseen world were closing against us, because we had shut ourselves up in the world of the present. But we let it go gladly. We felt that love was … Continue reading
The Book of Three
On the way home from church today, my youngest daughter informed me that her pencil was stuck, point-first, through the “leather” (plastic) of the car door. When I asked her how it happened, she said, “It was an accident. I didn’t know it was that strong!” Later, it was determined that my husband had shut … Continue reading
Their Eyes Were Watching God
I was familiar with the title of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), but that’s about all. Though it took me two tries, I found it to be a unique and powerful book about a black woman in the South becoming her own person. I started reading it last week, but … Continue reading
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84, Charing Cross Road
I read 84, Charing Cross Road in one evening. And though its call number makes it plain that it’s a nonfictional work, somehow I forgot this as I was reading. An epistolary novel ( is it a novel?) that tells the tale of a 20-year correspondence between an American writer and an antiquarian bookseller, 84, … Continue reading
