I had the fortune to hear Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, through UCSB Arts and Lectures. I enjoyed the book and was excited when I saw her in the Winter line up of speakers. Guess I’m a fan girl. Campbell Hall was filled: 80:20 ratio of female to male audience members. Young, pony-tailed, blonde women […]
My book club picked this romantic novel of time-crossed lovers. Two thirds of the book is set in the early 1960s England where married Jennifer meets journalist Anthony. Jennifer, married to an emotionally cold asbestos magnate, falls in love with emotionally open Anthony who sends affectionate letters to their secret PO Box. Anthony writes a
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Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything covers nearly everything in the “real science” category (Daughter’s definition.) Since I was a social science major, all of my “real science” classes came in this historical package. Reading this book was a review of every science class I took from elementary school through college. When flipping
I did a quick count of the blog postings under books here – 30-something. There were a couple books I read but didn’t write about (e.g. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman) and there are 3 that I’m reading now. I think I average a book every 10 days. The split was roughly 50-50 between fiction and
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Truth and Beauty: A Friendship is the third book by Ann Patchett that I have read this year. This is a non-fiction story of her friendship with author Lucy Grealy. In the second sentence of the book, Patchett describes going to grad school in 1985. I did a double-take, wait, what? I went off to
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