“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion,” Mary Oliver wrote in her moving account of what saved her life. “Standing within this otherness… can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
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I found another book that I really want. There is so much there.
also, I’ve never heard of Mary Oliver before, but this is the second time I hear of her today. The Universe is wonderful and strange.
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The Best Books About Friendship for Kids of 2017
Friendship is one of the most important themes in children’s literature. From the Peter Rabbit books to Winnie-the-Pooh, many of our favorite works for younger readers have retained their meaningfulness precisely because they taught us about how empathize, communicate, and play in our earliest relationships. The books we selected for our Best Books for Kids of 2017 list include a story about a child’s love for an oak tree, the tale of a lost pet, and a book about growing up in 1960s Los Angeles.
I want all of these, please.
Reading Mandibles by Lionel Shriver is like getting all my anxieties in one place, probably because protagonists and places are relatable at pretty much every level in incredible detail and she spells out how every single one of my fears would play out.
At the coop shift last night, my fellow cheese wrapper made an observation about e-books. As much as she loves the technology, and ability to free up so much space, she is concerned that, without lots of books on shelves, her children would not be able to discover them the same way she did, picking through her parents’ bookshelf.
My book-hoarding instinct validated.
Orhan Pamuk has the most understated signature I’ve ever seen, for a Nobel prize winner.
Your Kindle Fire is so named because Amazon understands that we Americans rather enjoy the hot oppression of endless choices, the arson of our calm.
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