Book Interests
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World by Jane Hirshfield
- Hirshfield's insights and meditations on select poems expand each poem so I feel I can fall into the poem again and again and keep swimming.
The Place My WORDS Are Looking For selected by Paul B. Janeczko
- It is nice to have poets explain how their poems developed. It enriches the work.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- Everything in this novel is layered with meaning. Thank you, Ford, for weaving music throughout.
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
- Nonfiction. Marvelous interweaving of the scientist and his wife with the family man and religion.
Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Yes, this is simplistic and a bit predictable, but what a charming escape with these good people. It is not easy to find characters one can both like and admire for being supportive and kind.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Verghese presents a complicated story that strives for a deeper understanding of what it means to be part of humanity. Idealism transcends culture and nationality.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
- Reading changes the reader, even if she is the Queen of England.
