Linda C. Wright's Blog, page 44

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

This book has been sitting peacefully on the shelf for a couple years.  I really wasn't aware of its importance as a literary classic.  Florida, hurricane and love story was all I needed to take it home.  Lately it's been sitting on the coffee table as decoration.  That's how pretty the cover is.  I kept thinking it had been there long enough but never picked it up.  About a week ago Ginger decided she wasn't getting enough attention.  She climbed on the table and nabbed the book.   I guess s...

How Can I Dig Out from Under?

I keep a log of the unread books, carefully highlighting and logging in review dates of those I finally got around to reading.   I've read twelve books since the beginning of the year.  Only twelve!



The list is still long and daunting.  Yes, I can do the math. Seventy-six minus twelve leaves sixty-four.  It's really more than that though.  Remember when I did all that purging of stuff?  I found more books to read.  I know you're all sick of hearing about the trips I make to bookstores.  Some...

Belong To Me by Marisa de los Santos

I picked this book from the shelf since it had been sitting there for quite some time.  I'd bought it more that a year ago during a buying spree at the book store.  Those cute rubber boots on the cover drew me in.  Early on I began to enjoy Cornelia and Teo and their move from the city to suburbia.  Once I reached about page 200, I began to wonder what all the characters had to do with one another.  I thought that halfway through the book I should have a few more missing links.  The character...

Confessions Abound

I have to say the 12 step program just isn't working for me.  It has prompted me to do some soul searching however.  What am I really searching for in my life?  Do I want to rid myself of books?  No.  I love books. Do I want to be able to resist them?  Yes.  Am I searching for an answer to other addictions in my life?  Probably.



I ended up in the bookstore last week.  I added four new books to my list.  My shelves never seem to get any lighter even though I'm reading and reviewing at a fast ...

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The Waverleys are a curious family in a small town.  They all have special gifts and a special garden with a magical apple tree.  Claire and Sydney are different yet so alike as sisters, but only after Sydney returns home to escape a violent relationship do they finally get to understand one another.



Garden Spells is full of the smells, tastes and emotions of their lives.  The author's ability to make the senses come alive to the reader is superb.  Her prose is special.  But I did find myse...

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

To this book, I want to say, "Enough already!"  I've been intrigued by this book for a long time.  It's been at the front of every book story, has an interesting title and a hip and inticing cover.  I resisted buying it.  A few months ago the paperback version turned up in the clubhouse library and I snapped it up before anyone else could have it.  Selfishly it sat on my shelf until now. 



The story of Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist and his unlikely assistant Lisbeth Salander made for an int...

Am I Desperate Yet?

I finally did read a few pages from my book on women's recovery.  I flipped it open and landed in a chapter discussing desperation.   A woman, in her third stint in prison, found herself along with the other inmates waiting for the bus to arrive carrying a new group of prisoners.  The inmates waved and cheered to welcome their friends back to the lockup.  The woman suddenly realized that she had no desire to hang out with her 'friends' in prison.  She was desperate to make a change in her lif...

Balance Beam

As I've struggled with my vertigo, I emailed an old friend who runs a website for women called Wisdom Woman.  Her response was that a physical issue is linked to our spiritual being.  Something  else in my life must be out of kilter since I'm having difficulty with balance.  It's not only in my ears.



The other night, I lay in bed trying to have a conversation with God over the constant ringing in my ears.  I could barely hear Him.  I asked for help being a better wife, a better friend, a bet...

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore

Same Kind of Different as Me is a Ginger pick.  I remember buying this book at Books A Million and then putting it on the shelf when something I thought looked more interesting came along.  The bottom shelf.  I call it a Ginger pick since there were many other books on that bottom shelf and she selected this one to use as a chew toy.  Once I retrieved it from her, I examined it and deemed it still readable.  Back on the shelf it went.  A higher shelf this time.



As I turned each page the book...

The Cave by Jose Saramago

I believe The Cave came to me by way of my sister, Martha.  I know it came a very long time ago.  It has a big read sticker on the front that says 'Now Only $7.99'. 



The Cave is one that I just slogged through for a variety of reasons.  Jose Saramago is from Portugal and is a self described atheist and pessimist.  I should have looked him up on Wikipedia before I started reading this.  But he also won the Nobel Prize for literature.  Maybe I could learn something. 



The novel is translated f...