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Sagecoveredhills

A desert rat and ex-pat from North Carolina, currently sojournering in the Upper Midwest. I love nothing more than spending a morning drinking coffee while reading or an evening curled up by the fireplace with a good book and a good whiskey, unless I could be backpacking, canoeing or fishing... I enjoy a good story, reading about the American...more »
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  • MaggieReads

    maggiereads says

    Hey Sage,

    Looking through your shelf, I really think you will like A Year of Living Biblically by Jacobs. I really wanted to stop by and say hi, and the suggestion is an excuse. :)

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • SeaWyf

    seawyf says

    Edward Abbey, yes, I should add that to my shelf of already read books. Nice to connect with you on this wonderful site, which I am just starting to explore.

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Well, I sure didn't know that about your blog. Interesting. My reply was mostly a joke, too! Your japanese comment gave me the best laugh of this particular day! Thanks for that! On another note, I have just had to put Miss Annie Dilliard away for awhile. After reading what seemed ten pages about a particular praying mantis, well, it just sent me over the edge. Gonna put "tinker creek" to rest for awhile. We need a little break from each other.I spent all afternoon reading Mark ?? book "One Mississippi". Great read, lots of 70's music and culture references.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    I could NOT resist a reply to your desire to see "SATC" in Japanese. Now, that would be in japanese with english subtitles, right? Or would you just go hard core with it and watch it with straight japanese and just figure out the plot while you went along.(That plot would be girls meet boys, girls get boys, girls lose boys, girls get boys back). Personally, I can't wait for the japanese version,the french,italian and spanish versions. Probably I will throw in croatian and chinese for good measure. HA!You seem like a savvy guy, but I think most men could pick up an insight or two from the movie. It is the quintessential chick flick, though.I am telling you this,in closing, there is some great truth of human experience in that movie! And this from the girl who lists "Testament" as one of her favorite movies...the plot involves the effect of a nuclear bomb on an american family.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Because I am an idiot with this blogging, I am replying here to your comment on my blog. I am very good at many things, but not blogging and definitely not Mr. Linky, what ever the he** that is! HA! Actually, I put the wrong date in my blog. I was in 11th grade 74/75 and graduated in '76. That's a blog unto itself, to have graduated in the bicentennial year. My folks even gave me a red white and blue car with an eagle on the hood for graduation. I mean everything that year was "over the top". "We raise he** just for kicks, we're the class of '76". Great memories though!
    Why am I not surprised that Annie Dilliard came from east coast money? Of course she would have to have unlimited funds to live the way she did on Tinker Creek. Extreme money affords the luxury of extreme intellectual pursuits. I don't begrudge her this because I read her web page and there is evidently some mental illness or disorder she is struggling with. I wonder if Tinker Creek sent her over the edge. I mean, granted, my morning walks are much more interesting after beginning the book. I look at blades of grass and dew on bushes and bunnies hopping around the corner and I wrack my brain trying to describe it. Usually it's, "would you look at how green that branch is with sunlight on it"...real original stuff..NOT!So, there is merit to her writings. I'm just being honest.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Interesting the far reaching influence of Montreat. I remember being so surprised by it. The first time I went to everything, immersed in the classes and the worship and the reading sessions. The next time I went was different. I spent more time in the pottery building, walking the labyrinth at the mountain top,just sitting around all over the place listening and thinking and observing. I haven't been in several years, but I look forward to returning next summer when my son goes to his first youth conference there.
    I googled Annie Dilliard. What an odd webpage she has. I think she may suffer from some kind of mental illness. I will read "An American Childhood" for more background. Thanks!

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Here's a "preview review" of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. I spent a solitary afternoon yesterday reading halfway through Dilliard's book. When I emerged from reading that most telescopic with magnifying glass kind of writing style I felt introspective,distant from others and thoughtful.I saw such spiritual symbolism,especially in her writings on winter...so symbolic to the winters of life.I also felt like such a city girl..ha!I'm not one, but compared to Dilliard, I'm a New York City girl, I'm tellin' ya!I'm curious as to how she got to Tinker Creek, why she went, what drove her there? Did something tragic happen to call into place a need for such extreme solitude? How old is she? Where's the husband and kids? Where's the job that affords such a life? I read the appendix but it didn't tell me much. Guess I'll Google her.I am pursuing a contemplative life, but I'm just a baby with it.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Sharon Fawcett

    sharon fawcett says

    I loved Jim and Casper Go to Church. I read it in my own frustration with the North American church and it seemed to echo all that I sensed was amiss, and also pointed out the great things some churches are doing to "get it right." I value the insights of Casper the athiest.

    Highly recommended!

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Montreat was instrumental in huge spiritual growth for me. If you've read my blog, you know I was raised by a southern baptist preacher father and sunday school teaching mother. Being introduced to something as exotic as the PCUSA denomination gave me my spiritual wings. I haven't landed since! Montreat was a balm to my spirit. It seemed even the breezes through the trees were from Holy Spirit. A healing place and great instructor of how I would live my adult spiritual life. I attended the worship and music conference and from those worship services culminated all that can be good and creative and fresh and real and thought-provoking when worshiping God. I still remain in that denomination and am just home from another sacred time spent with a fellowship of folks that have seen me through the thick and thin of life so far. They love me in spite of it and because of it. Because they have seen the low points, they appreciate the growth, the stubborn determination to claim the faithfulness of God through it all.And because they are Presbyterian, they do it in a quiet, non-emotional way, which is yet another balm to this emotional/highly guilt inducing former SB "pk".
    Peace to you.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • tapbirds

    tapbirds says

    Thanks so much for your excellent review on "Sentimental Heartbroken Redneck" by Greg Bottoms. I've added it to my "Wishlist" after reading your review. You might like the "Out of the Woods" collection of Kentucky short stories by Chris Offutt; sounds similar in genre to Greg Bottoms' writings. Also, have you read any Peter Taylor's short stories? They are excellent as well. Thanks again for your recommendation! Scott

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Susie V

    susie v says

    Hello, new shelfari friend! Now I have two! You and Maggie. I will try not to feel unpopular..HA! Saw Ferrol Sams on your favorites shelf. Oh, I love that trilogy! Have you read all three? I'm thinking of re-reading them this summer.Sams goes on my favorites shelf, too.Great memories of North Carolina. Spent summers at Montreat, PCUSA music conference.Fertile place for all kinds of growth.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Writer_Builder_Nomad

    writer_builder_nomad says

    I liked it (A Bread Baker's Apprentice). There were times when I thought to myself 'everything you could ever want to know about Artisan baking...and some you didn't' but I think that has more to do with my frame of mind right now. I just don't have the time for focused learning that I would like. Something like Amy's Breads is a lot easier to access than Reinhardt's formulas for manipulating ingredient percentages (which was very interesting and I'd like to come back to it some day).

    Reinhardt has a nice voice and I enjoy his stories. Even my husband likes me to read some of it out loud. R is sold on the cold fermentation method and I think I'd like to read some others to get a more broad view.

    Five years, how interesting. My great grandfather was a well-known baker in Chicago during the '20s, '30s, and 40s so I've always had a bit of a fascination with the life.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Writer_Builder_Nomad

    writer_builder_nomad says

    I don't think its weird that you've read Christy. You have too eclectic a shelf for that to surprise me. Its just that you were complimenting my shelf and talking about books you've also read on it and Christy is the only thing showing up in review. Out of our similarities I wasn't imagining Christy as our point of meeting. It struck me as funny.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Judy S

    judy s says

    No, she just wrote that she heard about it from her sister-in-law.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Judy S

    judy s says

    Just heard from a college friend in Hawaii that Ferrol Sams has a new book coming out called Downtown. So, he's alive and well!

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Writer_Builder_Nomad

    writer_builder_nomad says

    Lots of interesting things in your note.

    I do try to be selective about my 5 star reviews. To me that's for the books that give me the most joy. The ones where I forget to critique and analyze. Waterson deserves every star.

    I did enjoy Jenkins first book. I don't think it occured to me that his conversion was the reason my interest dwindled. He seemed so much more settled. I don't think he could tell you why he continued his walk other than that he didn't want to give up on something he'd set his mind to. I would say between his conversion and his marriage he found a lot of peace that he didn't have when he set out. We all like to follow the rebel, the seeker, the drifter. Travelogues aren't nearly as interesting. I think Jenkins has one set in China as well.

    I'm laughing right now because you have Christy up as a reviewed book.
    Tam

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Writer_Builder_Nomad

    writer_builder_nomad says

    You really need to stop buying such interesting books (not really but it makes it so hard to keep up over here).

    I'm especially curious about the Korean cookbook. I'll be back later to see how that goes.

    Tamara

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )


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