Books
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Waxing Philisophical….
So I’m reading this book, “The Mermaid Chair”, and the protaginist has fallen in love at first sight…with a monk. And she’s already married…been married for 20 years or so, I’m guessing, and never thought about ‘cheating’ before. So while this certainly isn’t the first book I’ve ever read about, or partially about, infidelity, it has me thinking…about art. About how good art can take a person down the road not taken. Good books, good paintings, or sculpture, or music…good poetry, or films, or even TV…(tangent…sometimes I think novels and TV can be the best at showing you other lives…because they have time that poems, films, and paintings don’t have.…
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Thinking about reading…
As you know, I turned 40 a week or so ago, and I received quite a few gift certificates to Barnes and Noble. Yay! Books! So now, I’m thinking about what books I might like to buy with said gift certificates. Any suggestions? I do prefer paperbacks, because hardbacks take too much space on the bookshelf. One place I like to look for ideas is the employee suggestion page for Powell’s Books. They have some good ones. Some of these are still hardbacks, unfortunately. Here are a few I’m thinking about getting: Love Walked In Award-winning poet Marisa de los Santos’s first novel is the story of a 31-year-old café…