I feel more than ever that one must just do good work, follow the bread crumbs, and enjoy the journey.
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REVIEW: Redeployment
Put together The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, 365 Days by Karl Glasser, and Redeployment and you have all the reasons you will ever need to be a pacifist, or a reluctant warrior at the very least.
Review: EAT PRAY LOVE
Gilbert knows that just recounting her adventures is not enough; she must put her personal experience into a context which will include the reader, and there she hits a home run.
Review: Bird by Bird
Take the advice, enjoy the humor, and gird yourself for the despair. Lamott has survived her despair and by her example (perhaps in spite of herself) reminds us that you won’t be facing the existential maw, you’ll just be joining the club.
REVIEW: What The Stones Remember
The blurb on the book’s front cover is by Alice Munro, “To read this book is to enter a state of enchantment.” Read it and become enchanted.
My book blog
An intelligent, deep, experienced, and articulate author can take us outside of ourselves, and give us context. More and more, it is only poets who can reach deep enough to pull me out of my self. Patrick Lane is a Canadian poet and writer. What the Stones Remember: A Life Rediscovered is his exquisite accountContinue reading “My book blog”