Gartenfische's Main Loves

  • God

  • Yoga

  • Meditation

  • Books

  • Photography

  • Gardening

  • Music

  • Silence

  • and of course . . . her family.

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They can be like a sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

- John of the Cross

books

Books!

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

Moonmaid passed on this book meme.  Books are some of my favorite things in the world, but this was surprisingly hard (so I’m cheating).
Total number of books?
Reducing, reducing. We’re down to about 1500-2000 (too lazy to do a real count)
Last book read?
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See (very interesting insights into life in 19th century China)
Last book bought?
Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation, Larry Rosenberg
Five meaningful books?
There are sooo many books I’ve loved. And I know […]

A Book Worth Reading: Maybe Even Buying

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I’m reading Anagrams (1986) by Lorrie Moore, who puts together words so beautifully and unpredictably that I keep finding myself chuckling while reading–gloating over her cleverness as if it were my own. She dances close to the line of out-clevering herself, but never quite crosses it. Mostly, I think, over and over, I wish I’d […]