This book took me forever to read. I’m not really sure why — it was fairly interesting and the pacing was good. I think it was just so supremely technical in places that I just started to kind of glaze over. But the rest of it — the more personal parts — kept me hooked. Everyone has probably seen the movie, but in case you somehow missed it (I think I watched it 2-3 times in class alone): astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise went into space […]
One must avoid dinner parties of 14…
… because if you don’t you are putting yourself in the awkward position of ending up with the dreaded 13 guests should one need to cancel at the last moment. Just one of the many insights I’ve gleaned from Mrs. Seely. 🙂 This book is another in the list of historical reference materials and this one has the added benefit of being a reference in its own time period! The height of domestic service roughly coincides with the Gilded Age, 1880-1920. In that time a […]
Delightful and Difficult Thoughts on Faith
My husband and I just started a book club with a few people in our area, and the inaugural book was Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies. I’d read some of her stuff on writing (and Bird by Bird is particularly excellent, especially if you tend to beat yourself up about your writing or get discouraged easily), but not her stuff on faith. So I was delighted and pleased that Traveling Mercies was just as rejuvenating as Bird by Bird. There’s no “plot” to this kind of […]
Traveling Mercies
I’ve never read anything by Anne Lamott before, although I’ve heard her name. So when a member of my book club suggested Traveling Mercies, I was excited to see what her writing was all about. And I’m glad I did. Lamott is from the San Francisco Bay Area, a place I’m familiar with having been born and lived in Northern California for several years. It was refreshing to hear mention of places I knew or could relate to her experiences at the beach while looking […]
And the Beat Goes On…
I picked this book last year based on a Cannonball Read 5 review and added it to my list of books to read. To see what I thought about it (good things!), head over to my blog to take a read!
Art as Ambassador
“In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance… Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.” – Persepolis I mentioned in my last review that I’ve been reading books for this Cannonball, so far, that are out of date. I mean that they are books published within the last ten to twenty years, but […]