This one will be added to my list of all-time favorites. I'd never heard of it before the used book sale. Many thanks to Olivia for recommending it! The stories are little slices of reality told with poetic softness. Truly original.
"I make a story for my life, for each step my brown shoe makes. I say, "And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked."
I read this in a Womens Studies class in college and really loved it. She just came around Seattle on a book tour, but I missed her talk. I think she has a new book out recently.
How to Be Idle The Freedom Manifesto Into the Wild Mutant Message Down Under The Pilgrimage The Help The Namesake The Vaccine Book Overcoming Speechlessness -Alice Walker The Tao of Pooh Birthing From Within Ina May's Guide To Childbirth The Horse Boy Eating Animals The China Study Last Child in the Woods In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Love Story Things Fall Apart The House on Mango Street The Lovely Bones Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Spirit and Nature: Why the environment is a religious issue Brida Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Three Cups of Tea The Looming Tower A People's History of the United States Travels With Charlie in Search for America The End of the Affair Water for Elephants The Alchemist Gaia & God Appaloosa Rising: The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha End of America The Kite Runner The Road Pillars of the Earth
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I'm going to the library now to go find it! Sounds like a great read!
I read this in a Womens Studies class in college and really loved it. She just came around Seattle on a book tour, but I missed her talk. I think she has a new book out recently.
I just bought this book in Cali and couldn't remember why I felt I knew...now I know, it was off your blog =) Haven't read it yet.
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