Miriam Toews. ALL MY PUNY SORROWS. The narrator's sister Elfrieda, a world-renowned concert pianist, has lost her will to live. I love Toews' writing. So convincing, it is hard to acknowledge that it is fiction. Set in Winnipeg and Toronto.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
ALL MY PUNY SORROWS
November 23, 2018.
Miriam Toews. ALL MY PUNY SORROWS. The narrator's sister Elfrieda, a world-renowned concert pianist, has lost her will to live. I love Toews' writing. So convincing, it is hard to acknowledge that it is fiction. Set in Winnipeg and Toronto.
Miriam Toews. ALL MY PUNY SORROWS. The narrator's sister Elfrieda, a world-renowned concert pianist, has lost her will to live. I love Toews' writing. So convincing, it is hard to acknowledge that it is fiction. Set in Winnipeg and Toronto.
GLASS HOUSES
November 4, 2018.
Louise Penny. GLASS HOUSES. St. Martin's Press, 2017. An Inspector Gamache mystery, about the hooded cobrador haunting Three Pines, the mystery of who the target is, and the banality of evil.
Louise Penny. GLASS HOUSES. St. Martin's Press, 2017. An Inspector Gamache mystery, about the hooded cobrador haunting Three Pines, the mystery of who the target is, and the banality of evil.
MEDICINE WALK
October 31, 2018
Richard Wagamese. MEDICINE WALK. M & S, 2014.
Hawthorne Book Club selection. The first time we have all liked the same book. I love the underlying theme -- that story is medicine.
Richard Wagamese. MEDICINE WALK. M & S, 2014.
Hawthorne Book Club selection. The first time we have all liked the same book. I love the underlying theme -- that story is medicine.
Friday, October 19, 2018
BUDDHA'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK
Jack Kornfield. BUDDHA'S LITTLE INSTRUCTION BOOK. Bantam, 1994.
One of my "finds" at the annual Rotary Book Sale. This is the way I need to learn. Too much abstraction does not work for me. Very calming. Excellent addendum on six types of meditation. So grateful.
One of my "finds" at the annual Rotary Book Sale. This is the way I need to learn. Too much abstraction does not work for me. Very calming. Excellent addendum on six types of meditation. So grateful.
Monday, October 8, 2018
HOW TO KNOW GOD: THE SOUL'S JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES
Deepak Chopra. HOW TO KNOW GOD: THE SOUL'S JOURNEY INTO THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES. Running Press, 2000.
Spiritual. Inspirational. Seems to me to apply Maslow's hierarchy to images of divinity and to stages of spiritual development.
Spiritual. Inspirational. Seems to me to apply Maslow's hierarchy to images of divinity and to stages of spiritual development.
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
Garth Stein. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN. Harper, 2008.
Hawthorne Book Club Selection for October, 2018. Love it. Set in Seattle. Race car metaphor. Dog Enzo narrates.
Hawthorne Book Club Selection for October, 2018. Love it. Set in Seattle. Race car metaphor. Dog Enzo narrates.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
CITY TREATY
Marvin Francis. CITY TREATY. Turnstone, 2002.
Wanted to re-read this one for research on my TRC Quilt. It still stands up. Still reminds me of Martin Luther nailing the Protestant manifesto to the church door, and of Chris Woods sacred urban spaces--McDonalds, West Edmonton Mall, Vancouver street Stations of the Cross, etc. Questioning what are our priorities, and whether the sacred can be resuscitated, and Indigenous culture given space to breathe.
Wanted to re-read this one for research on my TRC Quilt. It still stands up. Still reminds me of Martin Luther nailing the Protestant manifesto to the church door, and of Chris Woods sacred urban spaces--McDonalds, West Edmonton Mall, Vancouver street Stations of the Cross, etc. Questioning what are our priorities, and whether the sacred can be resuscitated, and Indigenous culture given space to breathe.
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