the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

2024 book reports

  • some of my favorite memoirs i’ve read recently.

    This past Saturday, August 31st, was National We Love Memoirs Day – and, as the memoir is one of the genres I most enjoy, I decided to share some of my favorites that I have read recently. Right now, including print books, ebooks, and audiobooks, my Goodreads Reading Challenge total for the year is at… Read more

  • an uber late banned books friday #25 – the final d.h. lawrence (thank goodness).

    This will be a brief banned books post – as I am writing another post today, sharing some of my recent favorite books I’ve read – and I really don’t need to spend much time on this book I didn’t particularly care for. I was not surprised to discover, after I did not enjoy the… Read more

  • banned books friday #24 – catch-22.

    This week’s banned book is Joseph Heller’s Catch-22. I had not read this one before and it was a long and tedious journey. I have seen it grouped with Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five – I suppose as they are both war satire pieces – but that is really as far as the similarities go. My suggestion is absolutely… Read more

  • banned books friday #23 (on monday) – catcher in the rye.

    I’m a bit off schedule – we had a busy weekend here in the Hippie Hut and I’ll be sharing more later about that – but this past week’s banned book was J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. As I suspect many of us did, I remember first reading the tales of 16 year old… Read more

  • banned books friday #22 – ulysses (is finished).

    This week’s banned book – James Joyce’s Ulysses – has taken me a few weeks to slog through, with several breaks for books that I enjoy – and even a couple of breaks for other banned books. Even last week’s D.H. Lawrence gave me a period of respite – and that is really all we need… Read more

  • celebrating national book lovers day.

    Today, August 9th, is National Book Lovers Day – and goodness knows we love books here in the Hippie Hut. God bless my better half; he has now constructed two libraries for me – in addition to book stacks and bookshelves everywhere. No matter how high my book stacks get, he never complains; rather, he… Read more

  • banned books friday #21 – more d.h. lawrence (bless).

    Back in Week Two, I encountered D.H. Lawrence and Lady Chatterley – and mentioned then that I was dreading his other two appearances on our list. Well, having stalled as long as I could, my library hold on Lawrence’s Women in Love came around and I could drag my feet no longer. Unlike some other works on… Read more

  • a cbk book report.

    I remember well the weekend that John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane went missing en route to a family wedding at the Kennedy Compound, in July 1999 – as I suspect most of us my age does. Even before smartphones and social media, television news coverage was constant and I was glued as we all quickly… Read more

  • happy birthday Emily Brontë.

    Since I first read it when I was a young girl, I’ve counted Wuthering Heights my favorite classic book. Published in 1847, it is Emily Brontë’s only novel – and her sole published work other than a volume of poetry shared with her sisters. It shocked the society it entered – and, published just a… Read more

  • our belated banned books friday #20 – james baldwin.

    This week’s Banned Books Friday – very early Monday morning as my left hip is still completely out with a CRPS flare I cannot contain so my schedule is a bit wonky – is James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. For me, this was another classic reread from my high school days… Read more