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Week 17/52: I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson I loved Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses. Spare writing and the Norwegian landscape made the novel into a memorable, beautiful read. I expected something similar of I Curse the River of TIme. Yes, it's spare and serious but the narrative lacks drive and theContinue reading “Mediocrity: Weeks 17, 18, 19”

The Highest Tide was recommended by the owner of our downtown bookstore. Jim Lynch lives in Olympia and The Highest Tide is his first novel. Loved it. Miles O'Malley is a young teenager obsessed with the tidal flats around Olympia and has a crush on the naturalist Rachel Carson. The novel follows Miles and theContinue reading “Week 16/52: The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch”

I can't remember why I bought Body of Work but I know we were still living in California when I bought it. Maybe a good review? I think I may have given it to Telfer as a Christmas present even? Maybe? Telfer took a Doctors, Medicine & Literature course at NNU and I purposely paidContinue reading “Week 14/52: Body of Work: Meditations on Morality from the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross”

I loved reading this children's classic. A perfect story for the rainy weather last week. I also loved reading my copy, a Folio edition. There are not many people who can think about beautiful things and do common work at the same time. But then there are not many people who have been to theContinue reading “Week 13/52: At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald”

 Okay, Great House this is not. Eh on most of the stories. The first story in the collection features the fictional town of Templeton that is also the setting of Groff's first novel, The Monsters of Templeton. Which I loved. Wonderful, funny, weird novel. Very Lorrie Moore. So maybe skip Delicate, Edible Birds? I doContinue reading “Week 12/52: Delicate, Edible Birds by Lauren Groff”