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Running Away With Reading Rabbit

 

Salt & Light, or Reading Rabbit, oil on board, 11x14"
Salt & Light, or Reading Rabbit, oil on board, 11×14″

 

Reading has been my favorite way to run away from reality all of my life. Nose in a book, that’s my favorite place to be. Since my family had a difficult and sad summer, I returned to reading as a means of temporary escape.

Here is a list of some of the best books I read in the last few months:

  1. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
  2. A Million Miles in 1000 Years, Donald Miller
  3. Scary Close, Donald Miller
  4. Still Life With Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen *
  5. Secrets of a Charmed Life, Susan Meissner *
  6. Without You, There is No Us, Suki Kim
  7. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in No. Korea, Barbara Demick
  8. Fiddler in the Subway, Gene Weingarten

#1 is about what teevee has done to our culture, but applies to the internet too. I found it fascinating and true.

#2 and #3 – I LOVE Donald Miller’s honesty and humor and wisdom.

#4 I forgot what this is about but I liked it enough to finish and to put it on this list. Anna Quindlen is a good story teller and writer.

#5 came highly recommended by an online friend’s website and was a great story about someone who survived the Blitz in London. Fiction, but believable.

#6 is by a woman who taught English in North Korea. I heard her speak on a TED talk and was interested enough to chase down the book. It is S C A R Y.

#7 is what the author learned by interviewing defectors from North Korea. Sad and scary.

#8 is another one I liked enough to put on the list and have already forgotten.

Sigh. Guess you’ll have to trust me that these are all good enough to reserve at your local liberry, if you are lucky enough to have the fantastic reservation and delivery system like we do here in Tulare County.

Our libraries are one of the best things about living in Tulare County.

I wrote “liberry” to make you smile. Did it work?

*denotes fiction – the rest are nonfiction

1 Comment

  1. Jana,

    Wow, we read some similar books this last month. I read Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” as well as his “To Own a Dragon” — so powerful. The “Scary Close” book is still on request for me at the library though. I enjoyed Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” during a college class years ago, and am intrigued by some others you mentioned. I’m currently reading Hatmaker’s “Seven,” Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir” and thinking about ordering some e-books by Michael Port and Michael Hyatt. I appreciated Brennon Manning’s latest “All is Grace.”

    Re your comment on my post “In Between the Doorbell and the Cheetah Print,” Jana, I agree, and we have shredded, mended couch sections too. 🙂 Wish you lived closer.

    And this welcoming approach to life breathes welcome everywhere to people, I believe. I’m still a novice at this, but want to get better.

    Jennifer Dougan
    http://www.jenniferdougan.com


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