Category Archives: Reading

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 myContinue reading “Film For Her by Orion Carloto”

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 andContinue reading “Moloka’i by Alan Brennert”

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.

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 elseContinue reading “Reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer and beginning two new books”