Jun 4, 2022·edited Jun 4, 2022Liked by Elizabeth Marro
Glad to be reminded of The Stone Diaries, one of my favorite books.
My husband and I just finished listening To The Lincoln Highway and I'm in love with it. Makes me want to go back and re-listen to A Gentleman In Moscow which we also shared (we listen together during and after dinner). Would love to talk about Amor Towles!
And I have to vote forSense and Sensibility as your next Austen read. Persuasion is a fine book but S&S is everything!
A former coworker told me about Iain M. Banks, a science fiction writer who died at 59 of a rare cancer. His announcement came in April 2013 and he was gone in June 2013. No time for anyone to really grasp it.
It had only been maybe a year when he told me and he wept when he found out. The author had such an impact on his life.
I haven’t heard of Carol Shields. I’ll check her out.
I have never heard of Carol Shields before; I'll have to check her out. As a young child we used to travel, via car, to Oklahoma (from California) every summer. I haven't traveled a lot but this has to be the most boring route ever. lol The highlight for me was when we stopped at HJ's and went to the restaurant. I loved the gift shops, I was a sucker for all the travel/location trinkets offered at each stop. Thanks for reminding me of these memories. :)
Uh, Carol Shields. I cried as well. Her books are so great. Her stories of ordinary women always sang to me. I agree, she died way too soon. I recently started re-reading The Stone Diaries. It’s a masterpiece. I also love Unless, her last book. The opening line was telling; “It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.”
She wrote this book as she was in the throes of advanced breast cancer at the time. I remember listening to her interview on NPR’s Fresh Air the year before she died. I’ll have to re-listen now.
Glad to be reminded of The Stone Diaries, one of my favorite books.
My husband and I just finished listening To The Lincoln Highway and I'm in love with it. Makes me want to go back and re-listen to A Gentleman In Moscow which we also shared (we listen together during and after dinner). Would love to talk about Amor Towles!
And I have to vote forSense and Sensibility as your next Austen read. Persuasion is a fine book but S&S is everything!
A former coworker told me about Iain M. Banks, a science fiction writer who died at 59 of a rare cancer. His announcement came in April 2013 and he was gone in June 2013. No time for anyone to really grasp it.
It had only been maybe a year when he told me and he wept when he found out. The author had such an impact on his life.
I haven’t heard of Carol Shields. I’ll check her out.
I have never heard of Carol Shields before; I'll have to check her out. As a young child we used to travel, via car, to Oklahoma (from California) every summer. I haven't traveled a lot but this has to be the most boring route ever. lol The highlight for me was when we stopped at HJ's and went to the restaurant. I loved the gift shops, I was a sucker for all the travel/location trinkets offered at each stop. Thanks for reminding me of these memories. :)
Shields' writing looks fantastic!
Raymond Carver, who died at 50 in 1988. His succinct, gripping short stories and poetry were, and remain, models for my own writing. I miss him still.
Uh, Carol Shields. I cried as well. Her books are so great. Her stories of ordinary women always sang to me. I agree, she died way too soon. I recently started re-reading The Stone Diaries. It’s a masterpiece. I also love Unless, her last book. The opening line was telling; “It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.”
She wrote this book as she was in the throes of advanced breast cancer at the time. I remember listening to her interview on NPR’s Fresh Air the year before she died. I’ll have to re-listen now.