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Meggly

Meggly

"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic." The Thirteenth Tale by Diane...more »
  • Seattle, WA, USA
  • member since Sunday, June 29 2008

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  • Meggly

    meggly says

    Wishlisted! Thanks!

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Babs S

    babs s says

    "Tilt" is the name of the book and its by Elizabeth Burns and there are parts of her writing of this book that reads like poetry. I think she has soime poem books. I'm going to check that out...

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Meggly

    meggly says

    What a beautiful review. Tell me the name of the book! I must wishlist it!

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

    meggly says

    What a beautiful review. Tell me the name of the book! I must wishlist it!

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Babs S

    babs s says

    Meg, I just read this book a couple of days ago and it was breath taking and I wanted to share this review with you...
    The things that happen to Bridget Fox in this debut novel could make Job weep, but Bridget is funny on every page, and equally poignant. The overwhelming fact of Bridget's life is that her five-year-old daughter, Maeve, is autistic. Bridget describes what it's like to love a child when "she can't let you know she loves you back." Maeve wears a weighted vest to calm her and alternately giggles and moans to herself. She throws herself against a window and cracks it. This child would be too much for anyone, but Bridget has also suffered grievous losses: she divorced her philandering first husband and weathered the death of her beloved cousin. She and her current husband, Pierce, recently left their longtime home in Manhattan for Minneapolis, where Pierce, an internationally known sculptor, has a teaching job. Bridget has virtually no support system. Her father dies of cancer, her mother is chilly (she tells the desperate Bridget that she needs to find a good rinse for her graying hair). Pierce is soon diagnosed as manic-depressive. It's no wonder that Bridget tilts toward mental breakdown, but it is a wonder that she can be so engaging while coming unhinged-and that Burns manages to stave off melodrama with her dry wit and down-to-earth narration. Burns is a poet whose prose is lyrical, energetic and original. "We have crossed over into some world that I used to imagine was inhabited only by saints and martyrs, by mothers who grow patience like lizards grow tails." This hip and witty novel doesn't mince words about sex, mental illness or the exhaustion of child-rearing.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I'm doing one of my infrequent wanderings among the friends of friends, who have posted notes. So from Babs to you. Your shelves intrigued me, so here's a welcome to Shelfari, and a note of commonality. I live in Oregon and love the PNW. Don't get to Seattle as often as I would like, since I am very drawn to the Sound, and I have family and friends there. In fact I will be spending a week on the OR coast starting this week with a friend who lives in Seattle. We will be sharing our obsession for books while together.

    I was particularly attracted to your collection of books about birds. A very close friend here in the Valley is a bird lover, particularly of crows and ravens, which you appear to be. She's an artist who uses birds as a topic in her art. She has the Crows and Ravens book by Marzluff, which I have had on my list for some time and haven't indulged. But you have so many more and Kay may get one of your titles for her next gift day. So I put all of them on my wish list, and will add them to my list for search while I'm haunting the many used shops at the coast. We always leave there with a bag or so of new additions. Heading the list will be the Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich. One of my favorite nature writers. Over this past year I have been reading The Snoring Birdwhich is a memoir about his family of biologist. A good read. Have you read it.? have a number of other authors in common, Coehlo for one, though I have yet to read many of the ones I have picked up here and there.

    Hope you enjoy the site. I have requested a friendship because of your shelf. I like to be able to easily get to shelf that are good, and I like the nudging of the site to a friend's additions. Will also follow your notes to learn more about you. Happy reading.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Babs S

    babs s says

    Ok...I'm horrible with math, so what does that average out to? How many pages a day? I read alot but of course life does butt in at certain times! LOL! After you explain more I will be able to tell if its at all doable.

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )


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