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Best Reads 2013. III: Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes:...
The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, says Frances Young in Brokenness and Blessing, is the kind of book she would have liked to have written herself. Published by Oxford University Press, this is a...
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Best Reads 2013. IV: Anne Tyler, The Beginner’s Goodbye
You probably wouldn’t read Anne Tyler for the plots of her novels. It’s not that nothing happens at all, though it would be fair to say that nothing much tends to happen. In any case, the plot is not...
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Best Reads 2013. V: Anne Carson, Antigonick
This is Anne Carson’s translation (and adaptation) of Sophocles’ play Antigone. Following on from Nox, an epitaph written on the occasion of her brother’s death, Carson here revisits the theme of...
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Best Reads 2013. VI: Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
This book, indeed Rumi generally, has been a revelation to me. As I have said elsewhere, I had come across him several times in the writings of Richard Rohr and others, but it was only when a woman I...
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Best Reads 2013. VIII: Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey...
his is one of the lesser known books by the late Dutch Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen, best remembered perhaps for books such as The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Wounded Healer. In the...
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Best Reads 2013. IX: Julian Barnes, The Pedant in the Kitchen
Having recently read The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life, I couldn’t resist Julian Barnes’s ruminations on cooking, cookbooks, recipes, entertaining guests etc. And I haven’t regretted it either,...
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Best Reads 2013. VII: Anne Carson, Red Doc>
nne Carson. Red Doc>. The sequel to Autobiography of Red. It doesn’t often happen that I preorder books that have not yet been published. This one I ordered as soon as I knew it was coming out....
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