“This is a book about being and becoming. It is about being a poet. It is also about the long process of becoming one. If these seem in the wrong order there is a reason: the disorder is part of my subject. There is nothing settled about a...
One of my current reads is this lovely book, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year. It’s kind of a had book to categorize satisfactorily because musings on the calendar doesn’t sound exciting. But really this book...
Playing along with Darwin Catholic— just like the old days!! One of my favorite blog-alongs. 1. What book are you reading now? A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland. Boland was one of the poets I read while I was doing...
I read 65 books in 2023– probably more if I counted all the books I read with the kids, all the books I picked up and didn’t finish, and I probably missed one or two because I’m not good at keeping track. Favorite Fiction: 1. Never...
Dom created this blog for me before we were married. It’s seen me through a lot of time. Beautiful times. Hard times. It’s hard to see it lying fallow, unused, like a garden in winter. The last few years have been hard. But I don’t...
8. A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Re-read, except sort of not. You see, Diane Duane rewrote the Young Wizards novels and this is the New Millenium edition, updated from the original book which was originally published in 2002. Diane Duane’s Young...
I am slow, slow, slow in updating. It’s June already and I haven’t even logged my reading for the first three months of the year. Life is busy and other writing has taken precedence over updating here, alas. I started off the year with...
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok was one of my favorite books of 2022 and I suspect it will be one of those books that I cherish and re-read many times in the future, the sort of book that speaks to the heart, that changes you. It’s the...
I woke up this morning with a phrase from my dream burning in my mind and needing to be written down: You shall plant bulbs. And suddenly, like an explosion, a whole bunch of things I’ve been pondering for a while have come together at once...
At long last, I’m getting around to sharing my thoughts about the rest of my favorite books from last year. These thoughts still feel kind of rough, but I want to get this off my plate and move on to talking about this year’s books. 1...