Bibliophile

The lines blur
between narrator
and reader

Each pang
a further melding

Reason, I’m such a fan.

(Image my own. Reading anything good lately?)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

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  3. I loved your word choice of ‘pang’. That really got my attention! I just finished “Tom Lake” by Anne Patchett. It’s a novel that takes place on a family cherry farm in Michigan during the pandemic. I enjoyed it. Now I am reading a nonfiction book by James Bridle, called “Ways of Being” that is dense and fascinating. It is about non-human intelligence. It is slow reading but worth it.

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  5. I’m always a fan, too. I read all kinds of stuff, continually. A woman in my critique group sent me a copy of her book – nature essays – that I am quite enjoying. “Between Urban and Wild” by Andrea M. Jones. She is a fellow Coloradoan, so I can appreciate the sense of place, too.

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  6. Yes, I love that blurring. I’ve found, strangely, that the books I read these days are action oriented, rather than the lyrical and literary, as I’ve read most of my life. I want something that sweeps me into another world, that makes me anxiously turn pages, thrillers where the good guys win. Escape from the dismal headlines, I suppose.

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    1. I agree, Deborah. I love a book that draws me in, hungering for more. Recently, I feel like I’m just encountering gratuitous (and unnecessary) violence.

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  11. I’m trying to read The Iliad. A few years ago, I read The Odyssey and really enjoyed it. Yes, I know — I got them out of order! IF I’m able to get through The Iliad, I’d like to re-read The Odyssey. We shall see!

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