What Are You Reading Monday – 02Nov09
What are you reading Mondays is hosted by J. Kaye’s Book Blog
This week I finished reading :
The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore
After spending the greater part of a decade traveling around the island of Newfoundland… NPR radio (host) Robert Finch chronicles the people, geography, and wildlife of this remote and lovely place.
I highly recommend The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore
St. John’s–lovely, old, quirky St. John’s–continues to change, gradually, but inexorably, into Any City, North America.
Also fascinating are the notes on two visits to Fogo Island–in 1988 and in 1995–which reflect the immense cultural upheaval there.
Finch writes intelligently and insightfully and presents his observations with a minimum of bias. I really, really enjoyed this book.
This book is part of the Literary Road Trip of Atlantic Canada.
I’m currently reading:
1. All You Have To Do Is Be
A very special gift from my sister because Tom Caldwell was our father’s brother.
Although I’m not keeping up to my chapter-a-day goal, this week, I read the chapters Helpfuland Invisible, wherein this charming bit of verse from Emily Dickinson is used:
They might not need me; but they might.
I’ll let my head be just in sight;
A smile as small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
Ah, yes, I’m reading another cookbook – and loving it. This one, picked up at 50% off at the closing-out sale of the local bookstore, promises to contain “more than 1,000 recipes with notes on cooking, eating, loving, and living fearlessly”.
It’s full of stories, back stories of food and the recipes, how-tos and so on. Am enjoying immensely although it’s going to take me some time to get through its 1110 pages.
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