I’m just finishing Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook. For years now I‘ve been aware that I missed reading this book in it’s feminist heyday and so finally came to it as a way of revisiting a period I lived through as a student some fifty years ago; it does feel like a historical …
I have been reading Life, the autobiography of Keith Richards, the leader of the Rolling Stones. On the cover Keith says: “This is the life. Believe it or not I haven’t forgotten any of it.” I have enjoyed this book for two reasons. On the one hand, it speaks to me very personally: Keith and …
I’m reading book 19 of a series of 24 . The book title is Wisconsin!. It is the Wagon’s West Series by Dana Fuller Ross from 1987. It is fiction. The book is about how people struggled leaving the east and going by wagon train to the west and setting up there to start new …
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions for Writing and Life by Anne Lamott is a wonderful book that enveloped me quickly in Lamott’s comforting, yet realistic, advice, and sharp, unassuming tone. As the title suggests, Lamott shares a lot of shrewd opinions about the writing process and both heart-wrenching and humorous experiences she’s had as a …