The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Review: To Hana the nurse, English patient is `a white lion'. I've come to expect movie characters to bear a marginal resemblance to those of the novel from which they are extracted. Seldom do the people in the novel voice anything resembling the clever lines from the film. Ondaatje describes brilliantly his story settings and the psychoanalytical introspections of his characters like an omniscient Nanny narrator.
Some of this book's visceral content presents itself as juvenile voyeuristic, not to be confused with the sort of obligatory 'adult content' that's required to provoke a publisher to finish reading a manuscript submission.
While the main storyline describes some heroic coping mechanisms adopted by it's characters to survive their various war-induced neurosis', the English patient suffers physical and emotional wounds which will kill him. maybe it should have been called 'The Great Escape'. Except that the author seems to have wanted a title that would be hemorrhaging irony. The critics called Ondaatje, 'poetic'. And his skill with words may be described as accomplished. he has been researching the writings to the National Geographic Society by explorers from the Libyan Desert. We have a glimpse into "the tact of [Ondaatje's] words." "In the desert to repeat something would be to fling more water into the earth."
"Here nuance took you a hundred miles." AND
"A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water."
I know the feeling of being enveloped in the 'emptiness' of the Mojave Desert, which sometimes can belie the impression that there maybe is nothing, maybe never was nor ever will be anything to come back to.
Summary
Frog and Toad are friends who share life together. I love the "To Do List," which includes "Wake up." Lobel wrote and illustrated more than 70 books. This book received a Newberry Honor Award.
Illustrations
I love the fresh and pleasant green and brown pictures, as did my children.
At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years, Book 1) by Jan Karon Amazon Price: $11.16
Customer Review: The first of the Mitford series, this book takes you to a town where we all wished we lived, where there are friends wherever you look and characters aplenty! Jan Karon writes the way these North Carolina people talk, and the reader can actually "hear" them chattering away. Once you go to Mitford, you can't wait to go back, can't wait for the next book, and the next and the next! There are pages that will make you smile, laugh out loud, make you cry, too, and send you down your own memory lane because many of the people in this book are like people that you know. So, start reading about Father Tim, his nosey secretary, and his huge dog Barnabas who responds to commands so much better when they're accompanied with a Bible verse--and it doesn't matter what verse, any will do. And that's just the beginning of the list of citizens of Mitford who await you!
Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead by Billy F Gibbons Amazon Price: $19.77
Customer Review: This is a decent book. About what I expected. Gave it a 3 instead of a 4 because editing was a bit shoddy.
The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold Amazon Price: $14.93
Customer Review: This book was interesting to me in some ways, and confusing to me in others. Watching the people below, growing and changing was neat, nut I didn't understand the concept of the 'individual' heavens and things like that. Also, towards the end, my mind was beginning to wonder; like it was starting to draw on...but besides that, it was a great book!
I Hope You Dance by Mark D. Sanders, Tia Sillers Amazon Price: $10.19
Customer Review: This book is a great gift, especially to those enterring new exciting chapters in their lives. It could as a result of death, illness, or just starting a new chapter. Life is hard but enjoy gain strengh from that around you.
The Book of Ruth (Oprah's Book Club) by Jane Hamilton Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Review: What ever happened to that odd, quiet girl in your high school class? Ruth is that invisible girl, poor and proud, but curious, solid, and worth knowing all the same. She has a talent for bowling, a talent for loving, a gift for friendship, and a longing for understanding and truth. Her narrative looks at her bleak life unsparingly, tries to make sense of her suffering, and doesn't dodge her own culpability. We listen as she tries to make sense of tragedy, tries to understand the glib promises of faith, and tries to learn to be the mother her child needs. We count our blessings in comparison, but with a shudder, realize that "there but for grace, go I."
Soul Mates by Thomas Moore Amazon Price: $11.20
Customer Review: Reading this book has been a life changing experience for me. Thomas Moore made me understand what is in people's souls cannot be controlled, and now I feel some negative past experiences I've had while in relationships perhaps had nothing to do with me, but it was just my partner following his soul, even though the outcome was not a desirable one for me.
I thought the premise of this book would show me the way to find a soul mate, but Moore's concept of the soul being such an unstable entity and not capable of committing, keep promises, stay attached, etc. makes one wonder why anyone would ever want to attempt to make a committed relationship or marriage work!
Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance by Bruce Wilkinson Amazon Price: $9.99
Customer Review: This book is transforming. If you were raised in a church that places the responsibility on you to win God's approval than you need to read this book. This book blessed my life. No longer do you need to worry if God will cut you off for not producing. Instead God cuts away from you so you can produce.
Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindl... by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne, Marci Shimoff Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Review: I have grown up with Chicken Soup For The Soul Collections. I can remember buying my first book at a book sale while I was in elementary school. I than moved on to Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul. I recently took a box of books to a book exchange shop and that's where I saw Chicken Soup For The Woman's Soul. I than remembered how much I had loved these heart warming short stories and since I had just turned 20 years old, it was about time I exchange my teenage collection in for the woman's collection. I am 20 years old, married and in college so sometimes I find myself stressed out and emotional so I like to sit down and enjoy a few of these stories. These are great books to own and there is a large variety so that anyone can find one that fits them. My husband and I like to read Chicken Soup For The Couples Soul together and I am looking forward to the day when I can read Chicken Soup For The Mothers Soul.
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Talk About it Here Big Mouth! WebWire (press release), GA - Aug 18, 2008 Just a few of the active forms you will find talk about science, computers, health, sports, cars, music and many other niches. Think of VariousTopics as ...
Car-crazy Jools revs up for tour WalesOnline, United Kingdom - Jul 30, 2008 Quite right too, considering he?s been involved in music, in one way or another, since his late teens when he and a group of mates formed Squeeze. ...
Former Husky Touched Many Lives Hartford Courant, United States - Aug 10, 2008 ... a series of reflections, those attending spoke of Ursery's passion for conversation, family, cooking, food, basketball, cars, music and life in general. ...
Events for the family Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 8, 2008 *FREE* 18th Annual Downtown Millville Car Show Features hundreds of antique & classic cars, music, entertainment, demonstrations, children's activities ...
Martha's Vineyard Magazine The soul connection in Aquinnah Martha's Vineyard Magazine, MA - Aug 1, 2008 Guitarist Arlen Roth collects his favorite instrument ? as well as vintage cars, toys, and memorabilia. BY NIKI PATTON Travel down State Road on any given ...
Bahrke talks life outside moguls skiing Sierra Sun, CA - Aug 8, 2008 The Olympic silver medalist may seem like she runs bumps all day long, but with a passion for things like coffee, race cars, music and the color pink, ...
Community calendar Post-Bulletin, MN - Aug 1, 2008 Featuring cars, music and food. Main Street closed for event. Free admission. Benefit potato feed for Chelsea Kvam, ambulance garage, Spring Valley. ...
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