false 1715547 female Smithers, BC, Canada 11/2008 12/2009 11783 Richard Powers 19929 Tim Winton 23 222 139 true 5658147 read 4 true 3758769 currently-reading 79 true 3758768 to-read 24 false 4678767 canadian-authors 15 false 4678851 light-mystery 11 false 4972958 adventure-travel-climbing 7 false 4825210 children-s-books 6 false 4676308 canadian-reads 1 false 5573911 biography-autobio 1 false 5978480 feminist http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/249425-december-read-through-black-spruce-discussion-lead-by-shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1191322556p2/1225.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:17:05 -0800
Glad that you are enjoying it Jenny.

And my apologies to everyone for my poor typing. I was just rereading my posts and my gosh, I am missing words, spelling things incorrectly etc. I don't know how you managed to figure out what I was trying to say! LOL. Now you all know why I am no author.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/trivia http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:39:09 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/73285-what-are-you-currently-reading-and-why http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1191322556p2/1225.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:54:23 -0800 When the Elephants Dance for my in person book club. Pretty good so far.]]> When the Elephants Dance (Hardcover) by Tess Uriza Holthe]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81088494 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181531172s/1163446.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:09 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/27120-which-new-beginnings-book-would-you-like-to-read-in-january http://photo.goodreads.com/polls/1260884551p2/27120.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:34:51 -0800 http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/243784-winter-solstice http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1182955129p2/188.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:43:00 -0800 A Coyote Solstice Tale I ahven't read it yet but will on Winter Solstice. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/254608-january-book-nominations-new-beginnings http://photo.goodreads.com/groups/1191322556p2/1225.jpg 1715547 Shannon http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1238187851p2/1715547.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1715547-shannon Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:21:38 -0800
The Echo Maker A Novelby Richard Powers.

This is a new beginnings book on two levels as it is a new beginning on an individual level and it is also an allegorical look at a changed USA (post 9-11). This is a comnplex book and it wouldn't surprise me if there aren't other layers of new beginnngs and major change.

Here is the description (nto from Good reads so you can look at that too to decide if its one you want to read):
Late one night, near the Platte River in Kearney, Nebraska, where the sandhill cranes pause every year in their spectacular migration, Mark Schluter flips his truck. Brain damaged, he develops Capgras syndrome, which makes him think that his sister, Karin, is an impostor. Despondent at Mark's constant requests to produce his "real" sister, Karin writes a letter to Gerald Weber, a cognitive neurologist whose case histories of bizarre brain disorders have best-selling appeal (think Oliver Sacks). Karin sees her brother’s recovery as a chance to “restart them both.” Weber, who is suffering a very different kind of identity crisis himself, agrees to examine Mark. Powers has taken the primal question--"Who am I?"--and traced it to its chemical elements, exploring the ways the mind constructs smooth narratives out of messy reality. But his investigation is larger than the individual, leading him to explore how humans as a species smooth out the rough spots, tuning out the natural world, straying from the instincts that might keep us alive on our own long journey. Powers has complete command of storytelling skills, building questions of both plot and philosophy so deftly that, in their denouemont, there is no surprise, only recognition. A remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it.

Richard Powers’s “Echo Maker” is a wise and elegant post-9/11 novel. It is not an elegy for How We Used to Live or a salute to Coming to Grips, but a quiet exploration of how we survive, day to day.



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