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Sage, I just finished a book I think you may like called "Wesley the Owl." The author raises a barn owl from 4 days old to 19 years. It has a religious message at the end, too. Kinda, your genre, outdoor religion! :D
Greetings!Thanks for the note and the "Earth" recommendation. I checked Amazon.com and it the DVD sounds fascinating! I just got back from a 2 week business trip to India, and the "Train to Pakistan" was given to me by one of my Sikh colleagues. Looks good, I'll let you know how it reads. Best wishes, Scott
I'm thinking of reviewing it. I'm in the process of trying to update all my 'new' books right now (gotta love the AAUW book sale) before I catch up with my reviews. I read Riders of the Purple Sage after seeing part of the TNN movie with Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. I swing back and forth between what I think of it. It is good at what it does, but do I think the Mormons are a demonized? Probably. But everyone either demonized them (Arthur Conan Doyle) or mocked them (Mark Twain) at the time.
Hi! Thanks for your interest in my book. There is a chapter in it specifically for people like your friend--"Wife and Mother Gone AWOL." It addresses the impact on the spouse and children of a depressed person. I also have an appendix, "How to Help a Loved One Who Is Depressed" and another, "How to Help Yourself While Caring for a Depressed Loved One." My husband and children offered their insight while I was writing these.Peace and Hope,Sharon
Truth be told, I barely remember Winter of Our Discontent, except that about that time I was WILD about John Steinbeck. I should reread it. LOL, Red Green can be really funny. Thanks for the chuckle.
Looks like you enjoyed Jayber Crow. I decided to add it to my reading list after seeing Barbara Kingsolver m ention it in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Sherry
We are loving Confeds in the Attic, Sage! I'm reading it aloud to hubby as we burn up the roads in MN, WI, and MI! Crystal, my wonderful friend and co-worker, will be co-presenting this book during the first Reading Round Table meeting in August. The racial discusssion in the book is rather heart breaking at times that makes for good discuaaion. Um, I hope!!!I really enjoyed The Ghost Map, too. His epilogue was rather different. The reader spends all the book in 1853-54, but then Johnson makes great leaps to modern day mega cities. Lots of "what if" scenarios... I look forward to your take.
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. :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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