the autoimmune hippie.

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book-review

  • anxious times.

    I have recommended Nina Rigg’s gorgeous memoir The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying more times than I can count, in person, in blog posts, in articles – and most certainly will again – and, this week, I have been listening to it again on audio as the world has felt crashing around us… Read more

  • banned books friday #26 – getting caught back up – and muddling through billy burroughs.

    Here we are, finally getting caught up on our banned books project – and I have a doozy this week. I had not read any of William Burroughs work before this one – but I went through the obligatory Jack Kerouac reading period in high school and I suppose I expected that this fellow Beat… Read more

  • banned books friday #17 (on monday) – toni morrison and alice walker.

    I am so very very off schedule – but this week’s late banned book Friday is two novels I would consider recent classics, frequently read in high school AP classes – both familiar to me – but, having read them many years ago, they were a difficult revisit – as they are intended to be.… Read more

  • a delightful few days with uncle joe – a true crime audiobook report.

    My better half and I are true crime enthusiasts – and our favorite person to watch, both with his previous show, “Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda,” describing his own homicide cases (with an amazing 92% rate of crimes solved), and now with a fantastic newer one, “American Detective With Lt. Joe Kenda,” where he hosts… Read more

  • banned books friday #14 – a clockwork orange (kind of).

    It’s a late Banned Book Friday – on Sunday – this week because it has taken me a bit to sort myself on this one. This week’s Banned Book is Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange. I’ll begin by saying I wasn’t looking forward to this book but I did try *really* hard to make it… Read more

  • banned book friday #12 and a regular book report too.

    This week, I have several books to discuss, one of them from our banned books project and the others just several good ones I haven’t gotten a chance to share. First, for this week’s banned book – my plan was to read Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, but, in the chaos of my plague and… Read more

  • banned book friday #9 – the remaining tolkien and more vonnegut, all good things this week.

    This week’s Banned Book reading has been pleasurable all around. First, I finished J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy with The Two Towers and The Return of the King. I know I’m repeating myself from last week but this series is one I wish everyone would read: if you haven’t read LOTR, please consider adding it… Read more

  • a sick day book report: good finds from two favorite authors.

    Today has been a sickly spoonie day, a respiratory illness finding me and absolutely laying me out. Tonight, I’m starting a new antibiotic – an aside, I think that should be in the running as a title for my memoir one day, “I’m starting a new antibiotic. . .” 😉 – and hopefully on the… Read more

  • banned books friday #7, a goodreads milestone, and an overdue regular book report.

    As I shared in my post early this morning, this week has been a gnarly one with spoonie issues. However, it is also Banned Books Friday – and I have been trying to write a regular book report all week as well – so it is time to leave the sickness discussions behind for awhile… Read more

  • banned books friday #5 – two enjoyable reads.

    This week, for our Banned Books Friday report – actually being written on Friday, stop the presses 😉 – I revisited two books on our list that I read when I was much younger – Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and John Knowles’s A Separate Peace. Though they are completely different – and we… Read more