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  • Film For Her by Orion Carloto

    Film For Her by Orion Carloto

    “A poet is only as lonely as their company.“ A wonderful book of poems and pictures taken by Carloto. The poems appeal to lovers, dreamers, and the broken-hearted, all of which I can relate. Carloto seamlessly shifts from poems to prose accompanied by her creative nostalgic film photography. I’ve always thought of books as my Read more

  • Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

    Moloka’i by Alan Brennert

    Moloka’i is the story of Rachel, a 7 year old girl that has come down with leprosy. Her symptoms are recognized and called out by local Hawaiians. Before she knows it she is torn from her family and sent to Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka’i. There, she is quarantined on a leprosy settlement and Read more

  • Finished Reading All The Light We Cannot See

    Finished Reading All The Light We Cannot See

    So much detail in Doerr’s writing. Werner in Germany and Marie-Laure in France are beautifully written characters in 1944. The technology of radio waves connects the two of them during the war. I enjoyed the bite-size chapters that help with the reading pace. Wonderful period piece. Meticulously detailed. Read more

  • I Hear Your Laughter

    I hear your laughterCity lamps that light me upThinking back I wonder whereAt what point, love fell corrupt I remember crossing that bridgeRoaming walkways for the best viewWhere bats departed into the nightI found my heart and eyes on you I sometimes wish I could turn back timeLike so many lovers sing in songsLife is Read more

  • Reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer and beginning two new books

    Reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer and beginning two new books

    Last month I left my comfort zone of science to read Less by Andrew Sean Greer. It won the Pulitzer Prize for covering American life. The story is about Arthur Less, a failed novelist about to turn fifty. Less is confronted by his ex-boyfriend Freddy of the past nine years now engaged to someone else Read more