Water and the Complexity of Environmental Experience The Wonder of Water: Lived experience, policy and practice 247 pages Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Editor In this slim volume, the editor has gathered twelve essays, framed by poems that explore the essential relationship we have with water. Contributors provide statistics, research data, analysis of current policies related to the containment and treatment of water and, perhaps most interestingly,
Penguin Random House has suggested that book clubs look at new books for next year’s reading list. The following are a few that looked interesting to me. The Kitchen Front From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Klara and the Sun by
Submitted by member Madeleine Kaye on January 13, 2021 I recently watched an interview with Dr. Gupta about his new book, which he found time to write while doing his day jobs — performing brain surgeries and acting as chief medical correspondent for CNN. A couple of things stood out: he said we should think of sitting as the new smoking … that sitting is
No, this isn’t a plug for a new elixir or an on-line mental exercise. This blog entry introduces you to Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s newest book Keep Sharp. If you think Gupta’s name or face looks familiar, it’s because you may have seen him on CNN. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is CNN’s Emmy Award–winning chief medical correspondent and the host of the acclaimed podcast Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction.
Thanks to blog member Margaret Boone for her comments on Hurston’s work. My Atlanta book club read Their Eyes Were Watching God soon after it came out in the late 70’s and it was very interesting and well written. I still remember some of Hurston’s images and turns of phrase. Barracoon is a compilation of her interviews with Cudjo and does not read like a
January 7 was author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston’s birthday. She died in 1960 in a welfare home in Florida and was buried in an unmarked grave nearby. She wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, but her work was not well received by Black critics at the time. Her best known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was first published in 1937 but had gone out
The Washington Post recently published a piece entitled “10 Books to Read in January”. Knowing that most of us will not read 10 books in one month, I have picked out a few for you to choose from IF you are caught up on your book club reading!! “The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine,” by Janice
Book Bub recently published photos of artfully organized bookshelves. If you have resolved to redo your bookshelves or add a new one, take a look at some of my favorites from the Book Bub feature: Vintage Display Simply Arranged Book Aspirations Still Life with Books Time to Unwind No Wasted Space Glorious Books
This month, Madeleine Kaye will be leading the Sandcastle Book Club’s discussion of Diane Chamberlain’s Big Lies in a Small Town. Luckily, for all of us who are reading the book, Chamberlain is appearing on “Friends of Fiction” on January 6. To be a part of the interview with Chamberlain, go to friendsandfiction.com and look for directions to join the discussion–January 6, 7:30 p.m.
Read all about it!! Read it now before you watch the movie, which opens Christmas Day in theaters and on Netflix. News of the World is a novel by Paulette Jiles. The story takes place in Texas right after the Civil War. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels around the west reading news to the folks there, many of whom cannot read themselves, nor do they
