I read a variety of books this month, but I noticed as I looked over the list that many of them, fiction and nonfiction alike, featured food prominently. Location mattered, too, as I gravitated towards books set near and far, from Seattle to New England, from New York to Paris, to the mountains of Bhutan. [...]
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Fiction and food, the familiar and the faraway
Posted in books, cultures, interconnectedness, life learning, poetry, reading, travel, writing, tagged book clubs, book discussion, book groups, Bookconscious Theory of the Interconnectedness of Reading, books, cultures, fiction, grail quest, history, humor, interconnectedness, libraries, life learning, memoir, mindfulness, New England, New Hampshire, novels, poetry, race issues, reading, writing on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
April in paradise
Posted in autodidactism, books, cultures, interconnectedness, life learning, poetry, reading, unschooling, tagged Arthurian legend, book clubs, book groups, books, fantasy, grail quest, interconnectedness, Kalevala, kantele, literary, myth, mythology, poetry, readings, Tolkien on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Maybe when you picture paradise, it’s someplace warm enough to sustain palm trees, or to support a brisk business in cocktail umbrellas. I picture barely leafed out trees, mud studded with boot prints, boulders baring their lichen patched shoulders to the sun after months of snow cover. In New Hampshire, April may or may not [...]
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