Friday, January 1, 2016

I have also decided to add the physical books I own to this challenge and at least attempt to read them I'm not hung up on completion; if a book doesn't grab me in 50 pages I will let it go. As long as I feel like I've given it a good try.
B Sides and Broken Hearts
Hyperbole and a Half
The Long and Faraway Gone
The Cuckoo's Calling
Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956

Saturday, December 19, 2015

I've thought about reading the books I've collected on my Kindle, but I have a pretty serious library problem and my holds have held me back from reading books I own. But I have cut way back and I put all of my owned books on my to-read list and I look forward to at least trying some of the following:
The Royal We
The Husband's Secret
Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
We Are Water
Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
Freshwater Road
Kumquat
We Are Not Ourselves
Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on Following Jesus
We Are Called to Rise: A Novel
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
The Book Thief
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Banks of Certain Rivers
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Salvage the Bones
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Les Misérables

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Song After Sadness

Despair is still servant to the violet and wild ongoings of bone. You, remember, are that which must be made servant only to salt, only to the watery acre that is the body of the beloved, only to the child leaning forward into the exhibit of birches the forest has made of bronze light and snow. Even as the day kneels forward, the oceans and strung garnets, too, kneel, they are all kneeling, the city, the goat, the lime tree and mother, the fearful doctor, kneeling. Don't say it's the beautiful I praise. I praise the human, gutted and rising. by Katie Ford

Sunday, September 9, 2012

I started eating batteries because I thought they would give me energy and I liked the way they buzzed. But they are corroding inside me and eating me away. They don't give me energy, in fact they sap what I have and they don't even buzz anymore.
Note to self: Stop eating batteries.