Mar 10, 2013 | reading & recs
As she sank to her knees on the grass and sobbed, the memory of a conversation with Frank floated into her awareness. But how? How can you just get over these things, darling? she’d asked him. You’ve had so much strife, but you’re always...
Jan 27, 2013 | reading & recs
This is not the post I sat down to write. The truth is I got sidetracked when I went to the bookshelf to reference something from one of my favorites. I scanned the titles, and I have to tell you I had a bit of a moment. What a miracle it is, I thought, that those...
Jan 19, 2013 | reading & recs
The joy of reading a passage like this: Maureen felt afresh the shame of not getting it. She longed to show him all her colors, and here she was, a suburban shade of gray. from the remarkable The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce...
Jan 8, 2013 | reading & recs
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce He had learned that it was the smallness of people that filled him with wonder and tenderness, and the loneliness of that too. The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life...
Sep 19, 2012 | reading & recs
I began listening to this audiobook just yesterday during my morning commute. While it is way too early for such pronouncements, Rules of Civility is a story so beautifully told—so elegant, so effortless—it may well be The Novel, perfected. I want to be there in New...
