Love of Books

Suggested books for Russell Crowe

At my Crowe web site, I am asking for books Russell Crowe might like to read. Many interesting suggestions there.

What The Doormouse Said

I found in my bookcase a wonderful little book I bought ages ago called “What the Doormouse Said.” It has thoughtful quotes from children’s books. In the animal section I found these:

"The streams running through my woods carry the dreams of the animals that drink there. Their dreams make the water taste sweet.” – Beauty and the Beast, Nancy Willard, 1992

 “He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.”  -Waterless Mountain – Laura Adams Armer, 1932

“If you become a bird and fly away from me,” said his mother, “I will be the tree that you come home to.” – The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown, 1942

“I think the smell of horses is the most exciting smell in the world.” – The Changeling, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 1970

Louise Bogan

The poetry critic for The New Yorker for 38 years, Bogan lived life with passion and protected her privacy.

"No woman should be shamefaced in attempting, through her work, to give back to the world a portion of it's heart," she said.

2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music

The NY Times: 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music

Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor Mystery Novels

Right now I'm reading the series of mystery books by Ken Bruen starring Jack Taylor. They are gritty, very Irish, very Galway and full of literary and music references.

Start with "The Guards", then "The Killing of the Tinkers", and go on from there.

I started with "The Dramatist" and then "Priest." "The Guards" starts the series, however.

Descended From Salinger

The NY Times: Essay -   Descended From Salinger

And how much did I literally inhale all the Salinger books? How much did I connect with the Glass family? So much so that Franny Glass's repetition of the Jesus Prayer in Franny and Zooey led me to a renewal of my faith several years ago - and to the vagabond Russian mystics.

"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner"

Salinger's Biography at Wikipedia

Literature Map

Find a writer on the map - It shows all the connecting authors when you enter a name - fascinating....Thanks, Renee

Crime-Solving Legends and Those Who Want to Be

The NY Times: Janet Maslin Book Review:   Crime-Solving Legends and Those Who Want to Be

Wallace Stegner

The NY Times: Western Authors Celebrate a Master

“You look at the fiction, and it’s not Western,” he said. “It’s truly about people. It could be done as well in Vermont.”

The East’s perceived dismissal of Stegner’s Western-ness was another leitmotif during the conference. Mr. Fradkin made repeated references to the failure of The New York Times Book Review to publish a review of “Angle of Repose” — and the dismissive column about it in The Times (“a Pontiac in the age of Apollo, an Ed Muskie in the fiction sweepstakes”) written by John Leonard after the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

Buy Angle of Repose

Omnivoracious

Amazon has a great book blog called Omnivoracious. They ask you to show them your bookcase. Here is mine: