tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346952887856541432024-03-16T14:41:25.736-04:00Kitti's Book List"I have put my faith in books . . . The joy and satisfaction I take from them (from reading them, writing them, buying them, owning them) never diminishes and, unlike most things, is never diluted by repetition."<br> ~Diane Schoemperlen, from <i><b>Our Lady of the Lost and Found</b></i>
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"The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true." <br>~ Hilary Mantel, from <b><i>A Place of Greater Safety</i></b>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-71871551479965905142024-02-29T21:37:00.005-05:002024-03-02T10:08:14.023-05:00Lanterns & The Missing Mother<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlhYtJQLp38Cgn2cbpnK2AFs-O69P1aBb-0WI4_wbtVttPCa78cj8oMzJNdqtIZ3zWQdWrWn1Lh3Rf8nQIBOBDZOy1tjyGG8vbSyMa60GignUdhaxWV46xg842ZuMTB7xNnTq2lvKdDOccpMEkWpDb-iwc6yLT1kIPGzgB2ltc7U6P7KdQg0pqvdJFTLo/s976/Lantern%20Otto%20Toaspern%202.png" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="976" data-original-width="782" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJlhYtJQLp38Cgn2cbpnK2AFs-O69P1aBb-0WI4_wbtVttPCa78cj8oMzJNdqtIZ3zWQdWrWn1Lh3Rf8nQIBOBDZOy1tjyGG8vbSyMa60GignUdhaxWV46xg842ZuMTB7xNnTq2lvKdDOccpMEkWpDb-iwc6yLT1kIPGzgB2ltc7U6P7KdQg0pqvdJFTLo/w353-h441/Lantern%20Otto%20Toaspern%202.png" width="353" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://www.incollect.com/listings/decorative-arts/wall-art/otto-toaspern-otto-toaspern-american-brooklyn-1863-1940-girl-with-lantern-447682">Girl with Lantern</a></i>
<br /><a href="https://www.askart.com/Auction_Records/Otto_Toaspern/73940/Otto_Toaspern.aspx?lot=5157317">Otto Toaspern</a>, 1863-1940</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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Combining a few things I've read this month:
<br /><br /><b><i>Tom Lake</i></b>
<br />by Ann Patchett
<br /><br />which opens with a dedication:
<br /><br />"<i>For <a href="https://www.katedicamillo.com/">Kate DiCamillo</a>
<br />who held the <b>lantern</b> high</i>"
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<b><i>You Could Make This Place Beautiful</i></b>
<br />by Maggie Smith
<br /><br />which opens with the epigraph:
<br /><br />"<i>I am out with <b>lanterns</b>, looking for myself.</i>"
<br /><br />~ Emily Dickinson ~
<br />[from an <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Letters_of_Emily_Dickinson_%28IA_lettersofemilydi00dick%29.pdf">1855 letter</a> to her friend <a href="https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/elizabeth-holland-1823-1896-friend/">Elizabeth Holland</a>]
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<b><i>Good Bones</i></b>
<br />by Maggie Smith
<br /><br />which contains the following thematically related lines
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from the poem <b>"Where Honey Comes From"</b>:
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"<i> . . . Honey
<br />is in the hive, forbidden <b>lantern</b>
<br /><br />lit on the inside, where it must be dark,
<br />where it must always be. Honey
<br /><br />is sweetness and fear. . . . </i>" (p 44)
<br /><br />&<br /><br />
from the poem <b>"Splinter"</b>:
<br /><br />"<i> . . . Now she comes in alone from the pasture
<br /><br />at night, raised <b>lantern</b> swaying. She lies
<br />a long time with the child, whisper-singing
<br /><br />some lullaby he's never heard into her hair. . . .</i>" (p 66)
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from the poem <b>"Transparent"</b>
<br /><br />"<i>The girl wonders: If she held a <b>lantern</b>
<br />before the woman until she went
<br /><br />transparent enough to read through,
<br />would she see the child inside
<br /><br />like a letter full of secrets? . . .</i>" (p 76)
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[emphasis added]
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<b>Additional Connection:
<br>The Missing Mother Figure</b></center>
<blockquote>Smith, in the following poem, and Patchett, in her novel, have each captured the disservice to women that is inherent in this annoying theme, so prevalent in popular culture. How many movies have we seen where the mom is conveniently dead or missing from the family? How gratifying to read these well-respected writers calling out this nonsense:
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Poem found in the collection
<br><b><i>Good Bones</i> by Maggie Smith</b>
<br><br /><i><b>If Anyone Can Survive</b>
<br /><br />it's the motherless children in my daughter's books,
<br />orphaned or abandoned or garden - variety alone
<br />with their chipped cups mied from the dump,
<br />their day-old bread squirreled from the bakery,
<br />their milk chilling in glass bottles behind
<br />the waterfall so it doesn't sour. They've learned
<br />to sew their own clothes from rags. They can tie
<br />their own shoes, a sailor's knot, a tourniquet.
<br />They can snare and skin a rabbit, strike rocks
<br />into fire. Speaking of fire, where are their fathers?
<br />At war, in jail, or fly-by-night -- what matters
<br />is the mothers, who must be dead for any rising
<br />action to happen. Nothing is as freeing as grief.
<br />Motherless children -- what do they have to lose?
<br />They're camped in the glacier-hollowed canyon,
<br />whose ice melted millions f years ago. Even
<br />the canyon where the motherless sleep is motherless:
<br />an orphan is anything that outlives what made it.</i> (p 57)
<br><br><br>Passages taken from the novel
<br><b><i>Tom Lake</i> by Ann Patchett</b>
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<i>"Emily seemed able to treat him as her father while at the same time endlessly declaring that someone else was her father. She wanted them both. Two fathers and no mother would have been the dream.</i>" (p 35)
<br><br>"<i>Despite his complete lack of experience, Duke turns out to be a miracle of a father, teaching the children to read and love the lad and master carpentry. The most disappointing scene in the movie is when his wife finally shows up to rescure them from paradise. Disappointment, the children learn early on, is embodies by the mother.</i>" (p 41)
<br><br><i>"Hugged by Uncle Wallace!</i> [a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_Father_%28American_TV_series%29">Bachelor Father</a>" / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Affair">"Family Affair"</a> kind of sitcom character] <i>Oh, but I had loved him as a child. The gruff and tender caregiver of sister's orphaned brood. The carefree bachelor, dashing in middle age, had risen to the challenge, leaving children all aross American to wonder how much better their lives might be if only their parents were dead.</i>" (p 87)</blockquote>
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<br><a href="https://www.askart.com/artist/Otto_Toaspern/73940/Otto_Toaspern.aspx">Otto Toaspern</a>, 1863 - 1940</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br><center><b><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2024/03/present-past-future.html">More connections to follow . . . </a></b>"</center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-67288301401604496302024-01-31T01:16:00.032-05:002024-02-18T09:41:07.477-05:00How Many Should I Pack?<center><b>If you could only bring one book . . .
<br>but, no worries, you can bring them all!</b></center>
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<br><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-Judge-You-Your-Bookshelf/dp/1419737112">I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf</a></i>
<br>By <a href="https://www.grantsnider.com/">Grant Snider</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<center><b>It's not alway about "How many can I read?"
<br>Sometimes it's about "How many do I <i>need</i>?"</b></center>
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<b>QUESTION:</b> Hey Kit. I’m purging my books again for the last time before I move and I need some advice. Do you regret moving any of your books? The ones I have left I’m rather attached to and I will have bookcases flanking the fireplace so I will have a place to put them. But still there’s a lot of them.
<br><br>This last week I have been going through old sentimental papers and there was a lot of stuff I didn’t need to be reminded of from the past. However, when I went through my books again I remember reading every one of them and that brought back great memories!!
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<b>ANSWER:</b> Our books were by far the costliest item of our move, but worth every penny. I culled a few donation boxes for the library before we moved, but not many. And I have tossed a few in the goodwill bag since we got here — but only a few.
<br><br>I am very happy to have them and see them all around me, even though most of them I will never reread. Still, it feels important to have them in the background, and you never know when you might want to track down some slight reference to something that crossed your mind.
<br><br>For example, over Christmas, a reference popped up to an article in <i>Victoria Magazine</i>, December 1992. I went straight to my Christmas magazine section, where I had saved several complete years of <i>Victoria</i> subscriptions, only to be filled with the dull and sinking recollection that I had donated them all to the West Lafayette Public Library fundraiser.
<br><br>Why????? did I do that? I hope some sentimental soul scooped them up for a few mere dollars to complete her collection and now loves them as much as I did. But honestly, I am still grieving, well into the New Year, over that mistaken decision. It would have cost me nothing extra to have included those magazines in the move, and they would take up only a few inches of shelf space in our new house, and they would have been there waiting for me at that stray moment when I needed them.
<br><br>But no. I’d had them in my life for over 30 years, and now I don’t. Sigh . . .
<br><br>Most stuff -- clothes, household decor, dishes, even our wine glasses! -- I would say let it go. But books are different!
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<br>to read on New Year' Eve.
<br><br>If you can't locate a <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/58558/58558-h/58558-h.htm">vintage copy</a> such as this,
<br>the story is also included in
<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Stories-Everymans-Library-Tesdell/dp/0307267172">Everyman's Christmas Stories</a>
<br><br>Companion volume to
<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/0375407898">Everyman's Christmas Poems</a>.</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/12/never-old-year-ends.html">Never the old year ends</a>
<br>but what you wish you had read more books!
<br><br>I admit to slacking off toward the year's end,
<br>but here are a couple of fun things that
<br>I read between Thanksgiving and Christmas:
<br><br><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Chemistry-Novel-Bonnie-Garmus/dp/038554734X">Lessons in Chemistry</a></i>
<br>by Bonnie Garmus
<br><br>and
<br><br><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Banyan-Moon-Novel-Thao-Thai/dp/0063267101">Banyan Moon</a></i>
<br>by Thao Thai</center>
<br>I love it when fate directs my reading, as it did one morning, a couple of months ago, when a facebook friend shared a deeply heartfelt and convincing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.campion/posts/pfbid0LfSFCuLphsszLqPkTU1VdH2uaV44Kaa6VZSFZNY3iMCfXbGK5TQU9UofonaBMr1ml">recommendation</a> for <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i>. That afternoon, I went to swim my laps, and there was someone sitting beside the pool reading it! Twice in one day -- a sign! I should have ordered a copy that very moment but delayed until the title came up at a dinner party a week or so later. I could wait no longer!
<br><br>So glad I joined the crowd who are currently enjoying both the book and the mini-series. I am happy to give it my vote as most insightful novel of 2023.
<br><br>I am classifying <i>Lessons in Chemistry</i> as a feminist manifesto, right up there with <i>The Woman's Room</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Room">1977</a>) by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/05/obituary-marilyn-french">Marilyn French</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French">1929 - 2009</a>). I have re-read French's novel many times and can safely say that it was my introduction to the concept of feminism and has informed my thinking continually since the first time I read it. All these decades later, I'm putting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/16/it-was-smart-to-write-when-i-was-so-angry-bonnie-garmus-on-the-winning-formula-behind-lessons-in-chemistry">Bonnie Garmus</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Garmus">b 1957</a>) in the same category. She gets it! In fact, she gets what everyone should have got back in the 1970s but still has not! And, as my friend Liz asks, WHY NOT?!?!
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<center>The entire book is quote-worthy,
<br>but here is one tiny favorite line . .
<br>"<i>She knew being mad at him was unfair,
<br>but grief is like that: arbitrary.</i>" (p 152)
<br><br> . . . which in turn reminds me of
<br>the observation in <i>Banyan Moon</i> that there is
<br>"no point in holding grudges against the dead."
<br><br>But, maybe there is.
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<br><br>P.S.</b>
<br><br>More Marilyn French on my Blogs
<br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=marilyn+french">FN</a> ~ <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=marilyn+french&max-results=20&by-date=true">QK</a> ~ <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/search?q=marilyn+french&max-results=20&by-date=true">KL</a></center>
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<center><b>Also available for viewing:</b>
<br><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Room_%28film%29">The Women's Room</a></i> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_in_Chemistry"><i>Lessons in Chemistry</i></a></center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-85500936360731675962023-11-30T16:33:00.023-05:002023-12-28T19:53:57.910-05:00Uniquely Magic<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37-pYkpfHkI-1TUS0JDiZ1jo_pu44jQubbMOdDB8ubXummj_ed6Zn4X2inAh58jrpHzyBlLSPg7bC5zfPf4auVsCDPqnbWOpX0s_XomsmQwlwNLxWkFs53LYN-TVCP4DS3HVzbP6DmWsQIo6LXGxHY4uyx0C3WKEo0M7ocTh5aL2mwV2-Rw7dbniscqJU/s720/2022-12-28%2016.31.50.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi37-pYkpfHkI-1TUS0JDiZ1jo_pu44jQubbMOdDB8ubXummj_ed6Zn4X2inAh58jrpHzyBlLSPg7bC5zfPf4auVsCDPqnbWOpX0s_XomsmQwlwNLxWkFs53LYN-TVCP4DS3HVzbP6DmWsQIo6LXGxHY4uyx0C3WKEo0M7ocTh5aL2mwV2-Rw7dbniscqJU/w440-h440/2022-12-28%2016.31.50.jpg" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>“<i>Books are a uniquely portable magic</i>.”
<br><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3389.Stephen_King">Stephen King</a></b> </td></tr></tbody></table>
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<center>“<i>I'm not saying that you have to be a reader
<br>to save your soul in the modern world.
<br>I'm saying it helps</i>.”
<br><br>~ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20850.Walter_Mosley">Walter Mosely</a> ~
<br>[Thanks <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chris.jarmick/posts/pfbid0y9u7orFMFr9fPwaMBkuC8MYgnvzmF4QgRnrHMfAKQLHLAys3BxRSk3PJgUaxv4gZl">Chris</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161899999253709&amp;set=a.103200713708">Jarmick</a>]
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<blockquote>
<i>"I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which readers can enjoy whenever they wish and as often as they wish. Instead of experiencing just one life, book-lovers can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives. They can live any kind of adventure in the world. Books are their time machine into the past and also into the future. Books are their "transporter" by which they can beam instantly to any part of the universe and explore what they find there. Books are an instrument by which they can become any person for a while — a man, a woman, a child, a general, a farmer, a detective, a king, a doctor, anyone.
<br> <br>"Great books are especially valuable because a great book often contains within its covers the wisdom of a man or woman's whole lifetime. But the true lover of books enjoys all kinds of books, even some nonsense now and then, because enjoying nonsense from others can teach us to also laugh at ourselves. A person who does not learn to laugh at their own problems and weaknesses and foolishness can never be a truly educated or a truly happy person. Also, probably the same thing could be said of a person who does not enjoy learning and growing all their life."</i> [pronouns adjusted for inclusivity]</blockquote>
<center>~ Gene Roddenberry ~
<br>from <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1335607">Letters to Star Trek</a></i>
<br>[Thanks <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lynn.zentner/posts/pfbid02ZA1rVdFZkjCjJ6NSWmxQep4fTnBwvkHHDXRdwLrbhUcevzNCefUmn7JDPVTbBZtal">Lynn Zentner</a>]
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<br><br><b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10203052934991759">Allowed to read during church</a>
<br>-- those lucky kids!</b></center>
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<center>See also:
<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2020/12/power-of-reading.html">Power of Reading</a></center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-42015311334456888962023-10-28T19:31:00.015-04:002023-12-27T00:27:05.153-05:00Once Upon a Cat ~ Halloween Version<center><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/PAIION-Halloween-Vintage-Bathroom-Decoration/dp/B09Y8NDKPP/ref=sr_1_13_sspa?crid=2O906LSDYJCIT&amp;keywords=bethany+lowe+thanksgiving&amp;qid=1669573867&amp;sprefix=bethany+lowe+thanksgiv%2Caps%2C87&amp;sr=8-13-spons&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2HDZDS8AZPJY0&amp;spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzVVo3VzdWS1dRQ1lMJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjE3NzY0MUE0TVRKRUpMWjdBUiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTk0MjI0M1ZVRkRLVUFQRFU4QSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX210ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=">Halloween Version</a>
<br>[and <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2014/12/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-book-about.html">Christmas</a>]
<br>of my favorite <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2021/09/once-upon-cat.html">tin cat signs</a></b></center>
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<blockquote><i>"Winter was back with a vengeance. The sunset colors were violent and a racing wind boomed angrily across the sky. Next door to the mystery house a large cardboard carton had been put out for the garbage collectors, and its top flapped wildly in the wind. . . .
<br><br>The house remained silent, blind, its blank shaded windows giving back only the red reflection of the setting sun."</i>
<br><br>from <i><b>Ginnie and the Mystery House</b></i>, p 53</blockquote>
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<center>The Perfect Halloween
<br>might be sitting home quietly,
<br>with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10202908529248044">cats in lap & books</a> in hand!
<br><br>Perhaps perusing some
<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2010/11/even-older-favs-from-even-further-back.html">childhood favorites</a>
<br>for old times' sake:</center>
<br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/06/choose-dearests-choose.html"><i>Ginnie and the Mystery Doll</i></a>
<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ginnie-Mystery-House-Catherine-Woolley/dp/B0007FZK1M"><i>Ginnie and the Mystery House</i></a>
<br>both by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/ginnie-mystery-doll-catherine-woolley/dp/B000Q1CSJO">Catherine Woolley</a>
<br><br>
<i><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2010/12/original-kittis-list-for-new-millennium.html">I Will Go Barefoot All Summer for You</a></i>
<br>by <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/09/summer-books-comic-funny.html">Katie Letcher Lyle</a>
<br><br>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B92QM6ZV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1">Winter at Cloverfield Farm</a>
<br>by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/897691.Helen_Fuller_Orton">Helen Fuller Orton</a>
<blockquote>I reread this one because the picture of the horse-drawn sleigh on the front made me wonder if it was the <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-ides-of-whatever.html">long lost story</a> about wishing away time that I've been trying to locate. But, no, it wasn't.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Window-Jane-Langton/dp/B000NZDK72"><i>The Diamond in the Window</i></a>
<br>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Langton">Jane Langton</a>
<blockquote>The introduction by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Maguire">Gregory Maguire</a> (<a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2009/03/highlights-from-2006.html"><i>Wicked</i></a>) -- explaining why this was his favorite childhood novel -- is very inspiring. However . . .
<br><br>. . . after waiting over 50 years to reread these books, I would have to say that now, for me, they all seem not just sadly but also <i>weirdly</i> dated. Sorry, I can't even make an exception for Jane Langton and <i>The Diamond in the Window</i>, no matter how beloved. These titles may have spoken to my heart in the 1960s, but I certainly would not pick them today for a growing girl. </blockquote> Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-18676786626593282572023-09-26T02:34:00.004-04:002024-02-02T02:22:58.309-05:00Trying to Make Sense<center><a href="https://condenaststore.com/featured/ignore-the-metaverse-hartley-lin.html">Cartoon</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17651854.Hartley_Lin">Hartley Lin</a>
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"<i>I tried to make sense of things.
<br />Now that I think about it, I have always tried.
<br />It could be my epitaph.
<br />LEO GURSKY: <b>HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE</b></i>."
<br /><br />From <i><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/search?q=Krauss&max-results=20&by-date=true">The History of Love</a></i> (121)
<br />By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Krauss">Nicole Krauss</a>
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<blockquote>My mother had . . . "<i>that cross inquiring look, as if she was going to pull up shortly and <b>demand that everything make sense</b></i>." (107)
<br /><br />
My friend Jerry . . . "<i>hated people using big words, taking about things outside of their own lives . . . <b>trying to tie things together</b>. Since these had been great pastimes of mine, why did he not hate me</i>?" (241)
<br /><br />"<i>The hope of accuracy we bring to such tasks is crazy, heartbreaking. And no list could hold what I wanted, <b>for what I wanted was every last thing</b>, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, <b>held still and held together</b> – radiant, everlasting</i>." (276)
<br /><br />"<i>I read 'The Life of Charlotte Bronte' . . . and . . . dreamed a nineteenth-century sort of life, walks and studying, rectitude, courtesy, maidenhood, peacefulness</i>." (212)
<br /><br />
<center>From <i><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/90-things-to-know-about-master-short-story-writer-alice-munro-1.4088507">Lives of Girls and Women</a></i>
<br />By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro">Alice Munro</a>
<br><br>[and from <i><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/11/going-for-walk.html">Who Do You Think You Are?</a></i>]
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<br /><br />
<b>On the other hand . . .</b></center>
<br />
"<i>In one of the first teachings I ever heard, the teacher said, “I don’t know why you came here, but I want to tell you right now that the basis of this whole teaching is that you’re never going to get everything together.” I felt a little like he had just slapped me in the face or thrown cold water over my head. But I’ve always remembered it.
<br /><br />He said, “You’re never going to get it all together.” <b>There isn’t going to be some precious future time when all the loose ends will be tied up</b>. Even though it was shocking to me, it rang true. One of the things that keeps us unhappy is this continual searching for pleasure or security, searching for a little more comfortable situation, either at the domestic level or at the spiritual level or at the level of mental peace</i>.”
<br /><br />
<center>From <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Start-Where-You-Are-Compassionate/dp/1570628394">Start Where You Are:
<br />A Guide to Compassionate Living</a></i>
<br />By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pema_Ch%C3%B6dr%C3%B6n">Pema Chodron</a>
<br /><br />[emphasis added]</center></blockquote>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-22844140958421421612023-08-30T16:37:00.027-04:002023-11-26T14:00:09.506-05:00Johnny Tremain and Other Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3svqfcJ9oBjbvCP15p1CS9iFpMqfaSn-CEhNoXAYtgkOQPwXVFW7p3mhG4azSCfC_vZ-tqa8Dv3fAqFc6EVRYuswqWBwFkFSJRSq61Ef8hj7mdzjf7SnXickWjCwOBA2ibQOGRJ2kpXX0Wj_S-p0f3jRM42l6GCuQnhDNhMnqSZV6u7HMV4YLFq0dt87/s915/Fourth%20of%20July.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="915" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3svqfcJ9oBjbvCP15p1CS9iFpMqfaSn-CEhNoXAYtgkOQPwXVFW7p3mhG4azSCfC_vZ-tqa8Dv3fAqFc6EVRYuswqWBwFkFSJRSq61Ef8hj7mdzjf7SnXickWjCwOBA2ibQOGRJ2kpXX0Wj_S-p0f3jRM42l6GCuQnhDNhMnqSZV6u7HMV4YLFq0dt87/w459-h313/Fourth%20of%20July.png" width="459" /></a></div>
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In his essay, "<a href="https://sherwoodenglishone.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/saundersforbesessay.pdf">Thank You, Esther Forbes</a>," American essayist <a href="https://georgesaundersbooks.com/about-george-saunders">George Saunders</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders">b 1958</a>) attributes his love of literature to his third grade teacher, Sister Lynette, who suggested that he read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Tremain">Johnny Tremain</a> by Esther Forbes (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Forbes">1891 - 1967</a>).
<br /><br />This childhood classic becomes the dividing line in his life: "Before <i>Johnny Tremain</i>, writers and writing gave me the creeps." But after reading it . . .
<br />
<blockquote>
<i>" . . . the world, suddenly and for the first time, transformed into something describable, with me, the Potential Describer, at the center.
<br /><br />The world, I started to see, was a different world, depending on what you said about it, and how you said it. By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions. . . .
<br /><br>Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others). If we learn what a truthful sentence looks like, a little flag goes up at a false one.
<br /><br />. . . But this process takes time, and immersion in prior models of beautiful compression.
<br /><br />Forbes was my first model of beautiful compression. She did for me what one writer can do for antoher: awoke a love for sentences. . . . Reading <b>Johnny Tremain</b>, I felt a premonition that immersion in language would enrich and bring purpose to my life, which has turned out to be true.
<br><br>So thank you, Esther Forbes . . . that boy made out of words, changed things for me forever</i>" (62 - 64)</blockquote>
<br />It turns out that George Saunders is not the only American talent whose formative years were shaped by <i>Johnny Tremain</i>; there's also Ted Lasso.
<br />
<blockquote><b>Ted:</b> <i>"When I was in fifth or sixth grade, there was this book called Johnny Tremain, and our homework for, like, a month was to read this book. At the end of the month, I hadn't read a lick of it, you know. And we had a test, big test, like, the next day. And the night before, I was anxious as all heck, and I couldn't sleep, and my dad starts getting after me about that. And I start crying. And he's like, "Whoa, buddy. What's wrong? What's wrong?" And I tell him what's up. And he says, "Hey, don't worry about it, okay. Just go up to your room, lay your head on your pillow and think about something you're looking forward to."
<br /><br />So that's what I did. Next morning, I wake up, and he says, "Hey, you ain't gonna ride your bike to school. I'm gonna drive you." And I'm like, "All right." And on the way to school, he talks me through the entire book, like it's a bedtime story or something. Because he stayed up all night, the whole night, reading the whole damn thing, 'cause he didn't want his little boy stressed out over some stupid, silly test. And I ended up getting an A. Boom.
<br /><br />He was a good dad. And I don't think he knew that."</i>
<br /><br /><center>From: <a href="https://lassoism.com/Ted-Lasso-quote.php?id=542">Season 2, Episode 10</a>:
<br /><i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14968656/characters/nm0837177">"No Weddings and a Funeral"</a></i>
<br /></center></blockquote>
<br />Despite its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal">widespread influence</a>, <i>Johnny Tremain</i> was somehow absent from <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2010/11/even-older-favs-from-even-further-back.html">my own grade school reading program</a>. As for my children, I remember buying them a copy when the title appeared on their summer reading list, but I can't say for sure that they actually read it.
<br><br>George Saunders' high praise of Esther Forbes inspired me to correct the oversight at long last. When I went to find <i>Johnny Tremain</i> on our Adolescent Lit Shelf, I pulled down a couple of others as well, that I remember my son Sam reading and reporting on the 6th grade:
<br /><br />
<center><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Cadet-Elaine-Marie-Alphin/dp/0805016147">Ghost Cadet</a></i> and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Soldier-Elaine-Marie-Alphin/dp/0805099379">Ghost Soldier</a></i>
<br />both by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_M._Alphin">Elaine Marie Alphin</a> (<a href="https://www.slj.com/story/award-winning-author-elaine-marie-alphin-dies-at-58">1955 - 2014</a>)
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Thanks Elaine, and Rest in Peace.
<br />We were honored to meet you at the
<br>Happy Hollow Middle School Book Fair.
<br />How we wish you had not died young.</center>
<br />Alphin, like Forbes, wrote novels of American history but with the added component of apparitions and time travel -- always a plus! It's worth taking a moment to look back in time at the conflicts faced by Apprentice Jonathan Lyte Tremain, Cadet Wm. Hugh McDowell, and Private Richeson Francis Chamblee, three earnest protagonists whose stories are fun and mind - expanding, requiring Patriots to be understanding of Loyalists, and Yankees to be tolerant of Confederates.
<br><br>Another young American hero that Saunders cannot speak too highly of is Huckelberry Finn:
<br>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/pfbid032DerwqzMc9udNzt5Ban8bfdLY42ATdb7ghQ88V5X9jNUmMXyt2b6RTyVXBuLP9VMl">"Huck and Tom represent two viable models of the American Character</a>. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck.
<br><br>The United States of Tom looks at misery and says: Hey, I didn’t do it. It looks at inequity and says: All my life I have busted my butt to get where I am, so don’t come crying to me. Tom likes kings, codified nobility, unquestioned privelege. Huck likes people, fair play, spreading the truck around. Whereas Tom knows, Huck wonders. Whereas Huck hopes, Tom presumes. Whereas Huck cares, Tom denies.
These two parts of the American Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the nation, and come to think of it, these two parts of the World Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the world, and the hope of the nation and of the world is to embrace the Huck part and send the Tom part back up the river, where it belongs."</i> (203 - 04)
<br /><br>
<center>Both essays --
<br>"Thank You, Esther Forbes" &
<br>"The United States of Huck" --
<br>can be found in
<i><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2020/01/tolstoy-imagined-you.html">The Braindead Megaphone</a>: <br>Essays by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders">George Saunders</a></i> (2007)</center></blockquote>
<br />
<center>****************
<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2020/01/tolstoy-imagined-you.html"><b>Previously</b></a>
<br><br>"<i><a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2020/01/tolstoy-imagined-you.html">Tolstoy thought well of you</a>
<br>– he believed that his own notions
<br>about life here on earth would be
<br>discernible to you, and would move you.
<br><br>"Tolstoy imagined you generously,
<br>you rose to the occasion</i>."
<br><br>~ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write">George Saunders</a> ~</center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-6658707091410004582023-07-31T21:57:00.720-04:002023-12-08T22:20:49.455-05:00Willa Cather Summer<center>"<i>A pioneer should have imagination,
<br>should be able to enjoy the idea of things
<br>more than the things themselves</i>."
<br>(<i>O Pioneers!</i> 28)</center>
<br>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaRG_hIAPQ6NbB-K6LXbFUr7ME3AccE5djbMaqlaAXPUb47clBKUUYngvxUu8449Lkt4IZx-5I7Ni5lyw1XZaxgxjN_F9jvFcRMeyahG3paFFX111p1oXbAZ8beBKShREkyfQlAYZSWgdMLEyEGoKk14UQtcTEbiqqsJHOD5WFHopf-UbBjaaGPLzUffl/s3944/2023-08-01%2016.43.26.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3944" data-original-width="2389" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaRG_hIAPQ6NbB-K6LXbFUr7ME3AccE5djbMaqlaAXPUb47clBKUUYngvxUu8449Lkt4IZx-5I7Ni5lyw1XZaxgxjN_F9jvFcRMeyahG3paFFX111p1oXbAZ8beBKShREkyfQlAYZSWgdMLEyEGoKk14UQtcTEbiqqsJHOD5WFHopf-UbBjaaGPLzUffl/w292-h482/2023-08-01%2016.43.26.jpg" width="292" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Lark_%28painting%29">The Song of the Lark</a></i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Lark_%28painting%29#/media/File:Jules_Breton,_le_chant_de_l%27alouette.1884.jpg">1884</a>)
<br>by <a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/jules-breton">Jules Breton</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Breton">1827 – 1906</a>)</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br> by <a href="https://www.minorart.com/">Wendell Minor</a> (<a href="https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/wendell-minor">b 1944</a>)</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br>
<center><b>In order of publication:</b>
<br><i>O Pioneers!</i> (1913)
<br><i>The Song of the Lark</i> (1915)
<br><i>My Ántonia</i> (1918)</center>
<blockquote>I love the way these book covers capture Willa Cather's sweeping vision of frontier life. Cather looks deep into both the interior psyche and the exterior landscape inhabited by the settlers of the North American Great Plains. The pioneers may be surrounded by stunning natural vistas, yet their hearts are often troubled by conflict and anxiety. </blockquote>
<center><b>For further reading ~ <a href="https://chriswolak.com/willa-cather-novel-challenge/">click here</a> ~ </b>
<br> Most are brief, as novels go,
<br>so you needn't be daunted by the project
<br> of assigning them all to yourself as a
<br> <a href="https://chriswolak.com/2011/12/09/take-the-willa-cather-novel-reading-challenge-2012/">summer reading challenge</a>.
</center>
<br>
Back in 1977, I was required to read <i><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2010/06/closest-realest-face_09.html">My Antonia</a></i>, which I loved and have re-read a few times over the years, especially the beautiful Christmas chapters, and the segments that remind me so much of my own great - grandmother's descriptions of <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2018/09/thus-far-our-experience.html">homesteading in Nebraska</a>.
<br><br>I don't know why it took me so long to read more of Willa Cather's elegant, evocative historical fiction. However, I knew it was time when, within days of each other, one friend (Antoinette) recommended <i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i> (1927) and another (Claude) recommended <a href="https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/One-of-Ours/"><i>One of Ours</i></a> (1922). In turn, I suggested these titles to my friend Megan, also <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2023/05/life-stories.html">an avid reader</a>.
<br><br>When I asked Megan if she had read <i><a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2636&context=greatplainsquarterly">My Antonia</a></i> in high school or college American Lit, she wrote back: "Yes I literally had to choose my own book to do a book report on in high school, and I chose <i>My Antonia</i>. I've never re-read it. I'm usually a one and done reader, movie watcher, husbands -- haha! Good for you to go deep into an author. Then you really know their voice, right?" Megan always gets it!
<br><br>
In the same way that <i>My Antonia</i> coincides with the experience of my ancestors in Nebraska, numerous details in <i>One of Ours</i> echo the letters that my grandfather and his brother sent home from France during World War I.
A month before he died, <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2021/11/angel-of-hills.html">my Great Uncle Sam wrote to his mother</a>:
<blockquote>"<i>I surely hope you are not worrying about me and trust you are not because I am faring fine so be easy as possible. I figure this is a cause worthy of an easy mind, although the outcome might be unfortunate for a boy, it is well worth whatever loss he meets, is simply why I can set steady in the boat. I want you to see it is so, not for the good old US alone but for humanity's sake in general, and I know you do of course and . . . see where we are fighting for Right and it's not near as much trouble for you. For me, I am not bothered a bit -- can't be bothered haha</i>!"</blockquote>
Informative background sources reveal timely connections between the current war in Ukraine and Cather's portrayal of World War I. This particular analysis is uncannily consistent with Sam's letter home and with recent testimonials I have read from determined young Ukrainian soldiers:
<br />
<blockquote>"<i>Whether or not one agrees with those who create wars — the politicians — men and women do go to war, fight, and die out of a sense of patriotism, honor, and duty, because of some sense of a higher truth or greater cause. Because war is horrible, some do become disillusioned with the experience; some are traumatized forever. Some, like G. P. Cather [Willa Cather's cousin] and Claude Wheeler [Cather's main character in <b>One of Ours</b>], die before their illusions or ideals are destroyed.
<br /><br />" . . . a statement made by one of Cather’s most critical contemporaries in the same year she began work on “Claude” [to be retitled "One of Ours"]: 'how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered' (Baker 52). That was young Ernest Hemingway.</i>"
<br><br>from <a href="https://cather.unl.edu/scholarship/catherstudies/8/cs008.harris">" 'Pershing's Crusaders':
<br>G.P. Cather, Claude Wheeler, and the AEF Soldier in France"</a>
<br>by Richard C. Harris
</blockquote>
<br>
<center><b>An unexpected connection:</b></center>
<blockquote>"<i>In those days Claude had a sharp physical fear of death. A funeral, the sight of a neighbour lying rigid in his black coffin, overwhelmed him with terror. He used to lie awake in the dark, plotting against death, trying to devise some plan of escaping it, angrily wishing he had never been born. Was there no way out of the world but this? When he thought of the millions of lonely creatures rotting away under ground. life seemed nothing but a trap that caught people for one horrible end. There had never been a man so strong or so good that he had escaped. And yet he sometimes felt sure that he, Claude Wheeler, would escape; that he would actually invent some clever shift to save himself from dissolution. When he found it, he would tell nobody; he would be crafty and secret. Putrefaction, decay . . . . He could not give his pleasant, warm body over to that filthiness</i>!" (p 27)
<br><br>from <i>One of Ours</i>
<br>Chapter 1: "On Lovely Creek," Part VII
<br><br>
<center><b>and from an unrelated work,
<br>which I happened to be reading
<br>coincidentally the same week
<br>that I pulled out all the Cather novels:</b></center>
<br>"<i>Men especially dislike the thought that after each one ceases to exist, others will continue in the usual way, soon filling the empty space. Along this line of thought a man is pushed toward the conclusion that no matter how precious his life is to him, no matter how he strives, accomplishes, and hoards to validate that life and protect it against every assault, still in the cosmic scale it weighs no heavier than the life of a hyena or a scorpion</i>." (p 28)
<br><br>from <i>The Crone: Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power</i>
<br>by Barbara G. Walker</blockquote>
<br>
<center><b>In conclusion (for now)</b>
<br>a few favorite highlights from
<br><i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i>
<br><br>
1. <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-long-nights-of-lent.html">The Long Nights of Lent</a>
<br />2.<a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-light-of-spring.html"> Hue, Value, Intensity</a>
<br />3. <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/04/like-coloured-map.html">Like a Coloured Map</a></center>
Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-35381923593537072092023-06-30T00:43:00.178-04:002023-07-07T10:12:05.585-04:00Sweet Serenity But Not Enough Time<center><b>Thanks <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Koopagene/posts/pfbid0EHKHuyTEpjin6hrTQbaRxZN6KuQ6gynEbHJP6D7w2CxazA1uf6etp3YJszMnnANBl">Gene Ziegler</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=588709233290695&set=a.561324119362540">Dozen Best Books</a></b></center>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzLbUHChiOf5H9mAu8J6dSIIMD1y4RWwSnf2VvRZyp0QH9psZRydEQ4hE0-L4NDhupt7zcf637a4IAp7BqnIg4DHrbwyXgoL9I58jK33M_00PdNHiLJGiep7YJym0gV-kTiJiPZxvR5rq031Z933gMR6EqNXVt5ni4llrA-LNxcf0vPx4-EvFM9uBtA/s611/Book%20Nook%20Ziegler.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="407" height="607" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzLbUHChiOf5H9mAu8J6dSIIMD1y4RWwSnf2VvRZyp0QH9psZRydEQ4hE0-L4NDhupt7zcf637a4IAp7BqnIg4DHrbwyXgoL9I58jK33M_00PdNHiLJGiep7YJym0gV-kTiJiPZxvR5rq031Z933gMR6EqNXVt5ni4llrA-LNxcf0vPx4-EvFM9uBtA/w404-h607/Book%20Nook%20Ziegler.jpg" width="404" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i>“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
<br />And all the sweet serenity of books”</i>
<br /> (stanza 21)
<br /><br />from
<br /><i><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44639/morituri-salutamus-poem-for-the-fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-class-of-1825-in-bowdoin-college">"Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the 50th Anniversary
<br />of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College"</a></i>
<br /><br />by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
<br><br>****************
<br><br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/06/kale-caesar.html">Last week</a>, I was translating <br />this same phrase: <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095436865#">Hail</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Imperator,_morituri_te_salutant">Caesar</a>!
<br /><br />"Avē Imperātor / Caesar moritūrī tē salūtant"
<br />["Hail, Emperor / Caesar,
<br>those who are about to die salute you"]
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<br /><br />
In addition to appreciating the sweet serenity of books, Longfellow also grasped the frustrating impossibility of ever completing one's "to - do" list. He doesn't mention books specifically, but you know they are there, waiting to be read, everywhere you turn: "<i>By the bedside, on the stair</i>"! And all those amazon deliveries: "<i>At the threshold, near the gates</i>":
<br />
<blockquote><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1863/11/something-left-undone/540300/"><b><i>Something Left Undone</i></b></a>
<br /><br /><i><a href="https://www.challies.com/quotes/something-left-undone/">Labor with what zeal we will,</a>
<br />Something still remains undone,
<br />Something uncompleted still,
<br />Waits the rising of the sun.
<br /><br />By the bedside, on the stair,
<br />At the threshold, near the gates,
<br />With its menace or its prayer,
<br />Like a mendicant it waits:
<br /><br />Waits, and will not go away, —
<br />Waits, and will not be gainsaid.
<br />By the cares of yesterday
<br />Each to-day is heavier made,
<br /><br />Till at length it is, or seems,
<br />Greater than our strength can bear, —
<br />As the burden of our dreams,
<br />Passing on us everywhere;
<br /><br />And we stand from day to day
<br />Like the dwarfs of times gone by,
<br />Who, as Northern legends say,
<br />On their shoulders held the sky.</i>
<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow">1807 - 1882</a>)
<br />poet and an educator best known for
<br />"<a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=longfellow">Evangeline</a>," “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “The Song of Hiawatha,”
<br />and <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=henry+wadsworth+longfellow">"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"</a>
<br><br>*******************
<br><br>It seems that Longfellow has captured the
<br>19th Century version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon">Pink Floyd</a> song:
<br><br>
<i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-7Ds79zo"><b>Time</b></a>
<br><br>
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
<br>Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
<br>Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
<br>Waiting for someone or something to show you the way
<br><br>Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
<br>You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today
<br>And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
<br>No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
<br><br>And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
<br>Racing around to come up behind you again
<br>The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
<br>Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
<br><br>Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
<br>Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
<br>Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
<br>The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say
<br><br>Home, home again
<br>I like to be here when I can
<br>And when I come home cold and tired
<br>It's good to warm my bones beside the fire
<br><br>Far away across the field
<br>The tolling of the iron bell
<br>Calls the faithful to their knees
<br>To hear the softly spoken magic spells</i>
</blockquote>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-10263024482941712872023-05-31T00:32:00.436-04:002023-07-09T12:24:21.827-04:00Life Stories<center>Classy Gift from a Classy Friend
<br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/12/oakleaf-hydrangea.html">an intriguing mystery in verse</a>,
<br>complete with whimsical illustrations
<br>and this stylish cover design!</center><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaTfI8OwwMIiyV2NyPP-lQSXqQpvGwTy-v5z930u0G7FqR3mtUQxDkUNea1FYCk5ORVJ6VxJFXpS4H6k495SCtAokl2kiFcAb3kFxbI4k8vRyL162J0knG6pe0GyHEq0j9pTgiRi7-f4Con5Sq0lkYgPoZKJl5_IhbcLa6_ZpnkY1Ob3uSHmhM8IZxNCO/s3713/2023-07-03%2014.50.37.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3713" data-original-width="2422" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaTfI8OwwMIiyV2NyPP-lQSXqQpvGwTy-v5z930u0G7FqR3mtUQxDkUNea1FYCk5ORVJ6VxJFXpS4H6k495SCtAokl2kiFcAb3kFxbI4k8vRyL162J0knG6pe0GyHEq0j9pTgiRi7-f4Con5Sq0lkYgPoZKJl5_IhbcLa6_ZpnkY1Ob3uSHmhM8IZxNCO/w338-h517/2023-07-03%2014.50.37.jpg" width="338" /></a></div>
<center>Thanks to <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=megan">my friend Megan</a> --
<br />a <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=megan">good sport</a>, a <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/search?q=megan">good writer</a>, an <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2015/02/books-from-friend.html">intense reader</a>,
<br />and a guest blogger -- for the above clever diversion
<br>and for following serious suggestions:</center>
<br /><b>Megan</b>: I am delving into autobiographies and biographies right now. Listening to them when I'm out walking daily is a great way to enjoy them. I was doing podcasts before that and decided to try some audiobooks:
<blockquote>First I tried <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson/dp/0743264746/ref=asc_df_0743264746/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=266033622375&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17392276613820282640&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008337&hvtargid=pla-433824948384&psc=1">Einstein</a>'s but found it too technical! Haha!
<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowball:_Warren_Buffett_and_the_Business_of_Life">Warren Buffett's 800 pager</a> was great in my opinion.
<br /><br />Melinda Gates: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Moment-Lift-Empowering-Women-Changes/dp/1250257727/ref=sr_1_1?crid=CGNDLTZWCRPA&keywords=melinda+gates+book+the+moment+of+lift&qid=1688357227&sprefix=melinda+gates%2Caps%2C86&sr=8-1"><i>The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World</i></a> was excellent and I highly recommend.
<br /><br />Now I'm on <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Code-Breaker-Jennifer-Doudna-Editing/dp/1982115858/ref=sr_1_1?crid=9O1HKC6WELXC&keywords=code+breaker&qid=1688357326&sprefix=code+breaker%2Caps%2C85&sr=8-1">The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race</a></i> by Walter Isaacson (Re <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR">CRISPR</a>).</blockquote>
<b>Megan</b>: One of my favorite thrift stores has softcover books for 25 cents & hardcover for a dollar. I'm thankful that there seems to be a biography reader in the neighborhood!
<blockquote>I have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_Mark_Twain">Mark Twain's autobiography</a> sitting on my nightstand -- several tomes! I'm sure they'll be really entertaining though.
<br /><br />Just finished J<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cash-Autobiography-Johnny/dp/0060727535/ref=asc_df_0060727535/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312174487654&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18199400737349418283&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9008337&hvtargid=pla-435472358368&psc=1">ohnny Cash</a>'s short biography. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/I-Tina-My-Life-Story/dp/0061958808/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=37SY6BFUX0I98&keywords=tina+turner+autobiography&qid=1688405070&s=books&sprefix=tina+turner%2Cstripbooks%2C71&sr=1-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1">Tina Turner</a>'s is sitting here as well, coincidentally since she had just passed away this week. My neighbor was throwing those out so I grabbed them, even though musicians are not a typical choice for me.
<br /><br />I read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Audition-Memoir-Barbara-Walters-ebook/dp/B0015DRO0K?ref_=ast_author_mpb">Audition: A Memoir</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition:_A_Memoir">Barbara Walters</a> earlier in the year, before she died. That was super interesting since I knew all the famous players that she was interviewing and had stories of! Couldn't believe she died a short time later and that she was 93! What a life she had, a groundbreaker for women in journalism and in the world!
<br /><br />I've also noticed that there seems to be a <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Larry-McMurtry/547">Larry McMurtry</a> reader in the neighborhood too. I read one of his novels a long time ago for a book club and found him to be a beautiful writer; but these are cowboy stories, not biographies, so I'm passing on McMurtry for the moment.</blockquote>
<center><b>My friend <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2023/03/like-absinthe.html">Beata</a>
<br>recommends this one:</b>
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<br>
<b>One more bio / autobio
<br>for summer reading:</b>
<br>Thanks to our friends Michele & Stephen,
<br>and to Gerry for sharing this one with me:
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/pfbid0z1X3KTyEFics72TJJd2WJXKq8n9QwmMZng18JZXDLHrtn8NVNxLFgLDXv28prU89l">Favorite passage:</a>
<br>"<i>I enjoyed the rhythms [of the flight drills],
<br>the poetry, the meditative chant of it all.
<br>And I found deeper meanings in the exercise.
<br>I'd often think: It's the whole game, isn't it?
<br>Getting people to see the world as you see it?
<br>And say it all back to you?</i>" (127)
<br><br><a href="https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/prince-harry-book-spare-sales-review.html">Interesting comparison</a> of Harry's book
<br>to <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2013/08/sixteen-years-ago-still-so-sad.html"><i>Bridget Jones' Diary</i></a>
<br><br>I find this connection especially appropriate
<br>because no one wrote more sensitively about
<br>the death of Diana than Helen Fielding did in
<br>the sequel: <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2013/08/sixteen-years-ago-still-so-sad.html"><i>Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason</i></a>
</center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-32381638926754274112023-04-30T21:42:00.954-04:002023-07-03T18:59:15.143-04:00Way Back Books<center><b>The Girl Needs a Book!</b></center><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBOIrtDIi2UVym4GGmWMqg0_7ZLsWWALVgoL8UShvoHT2q8buQxFnqF6G878Os_GpGLjIPfNtRKG3TMpn38kRnO0bZBEG2EQbBSJVjUkD-OcKpk5pXE58NHKbyHTest1PypPcXZolD8cg3RLzrVVrNfXW822r4zBmHYxBOLrjy7jNoKAnpqnwfxHKiNA/s653/Weekly%20Reader.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="505" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBOIrtDIi2UVym4GGmWMqg0_7ZLsWWALVgoL8UShvoHT2q8buQxFnqF6G878Os_GpGLjIPfNtRKG3TMpn38kRnO0bZBEG2EQbBSJVjUkD-OcKpk5pXE58NHKbyHTest1PypPcXZolD8cg3RLzrVVrNfXW822r4zBmHYxBOLrjy7jNoKAnpqnwfxHKiNA/w389-h504/Weekly%20Reader.jpg" width="389" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DoYouRememberWhen1/photos/a.245832525454730/6926954107342505/"><b>Do You Remember When</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br>You can pretty much count on it that someone, somewhere is always looking back <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostalgia">nostalgically</a>. According to our wisest poets, nearly anything at any time can bring on a backward - glancing case of <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2021/03/felix-anno-novo.html">"Nostalgia."</a> You can even feel nostalgia for nostalgia: "<i>Man. When I was a kid, nostalgia was a lot better than that.</i>" Thus concludes a reader last month in the comments following <a href="https://www.slowboring.com/p/nostalgia-economics-is-totally-wrong">"Nostalgia economics is totally wrong,"</a> a pertinent essay by journalist Matthew Yglesias that turned up in my mailbox last month.
<br /><br />Around the same time, more nostalgia arrived in the form of "Grandpa," a memoir from my friend <a href="http://www.geneziegler.com/clocktower/index.html">Gene Ziegler</a>, complete with this helpful etymology:
<br /><br />
<center><i>Nostalgia</i>,
<br />from the Greek <i>nostos</i> (meaning <i>homecoming</i>)
<br />and <i>algos</i> (meaning <i>pain</i>).</center>
<br />Gene's thesis: maybe there's a way to "remember the homecoming part and block out any pain." For the sake of his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grandchild%27s_Guide_to_Using_Grandpa%27s_Computer">grandchildren and great - grands</a>, he captures what it was like growing up in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allentown_%28song%29">Allentown, PA</a>, in the 1940s, back when a happy home included one bathroom for all, an icebox -- not a refrigerator, a radio -- not a television, a front porch -- not an air-conditioner, a clothes line -- not a dryer, a <a href="https://www.phillytrib.com/lifestyle/back-in-the-day-telephone-party-lines-could-be-anything-but-a-party/article_ef658594-a545-56bf-8796-e8eeb2ce4128.html">party line</a> -- not a cellphone, but even so, one of the only phones on the block, so nothing to sneeze at! Looking back, Gene concludes:
<br />
<blockquote><i>These may seem like hard times by today’s standards, but they didn’t seem so at the time. I
never thought of us as poor, never went hungry, never felt deprived of things I wanted or
needed. I never felt threatened or unloved. Live was just simpler then. I’d have my trolly car back in a heartbeat.</i></blockquote>
I, too, could remember all those things; and what I wouldn't give for a trolley line! I also have Gene to thank for sharing the above <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DoYouRememberWhen1/posts/pfbid0i62CMXz4DfWFjLNy1uUByPMMng9XRqBUEEnv4qvSbHaq26k9rawfacTYoG2GTVw6l">Weekly Reader</a> cover of yesteryear, which took me straight back to elementary school, <i>homecoming pain</i> and all. How could I have forgotten about that! The <i>Weekly Reader</i> made us feel so grown up and important. How exciting when it was delivered (every Friday?) to our classroom.
<br /><br />One year we even got to “subscribe” and save each issue in a special binder, so at the end of second grade, we had “the year in review.” I saved mine for ages, but sadly ditched it somewhere along the way, probably in one of my college moves. That <i>Weekly Reader</i> collection is definitely on the list of things I've thrown away and later wished to have back again, along with my junior high art portfolio. What was I thinking? No doubt, the Weekly Readers live on, somewhere online. But the artwork? Only in my mind.
<br /><br />
<center>"<i><b>Never such innocence again . . .</b></i>"
<br /><br />*************</center>
<br />
Of all the reading I have been doing lately, here are three titles -- one memoir and two historical novels -- filled with nostalgia for an earlier, happier time:
<br /><br />
<b>1. Way back --</b> when Billy Crystal was a kid:
<br /><br />
<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/700_Sundays">700 Sundays</a></i>
<br />by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crystal">Billy Crystal</a> (b 1948)
<blockquote>84: "<i>They [his parents] met at Macy's in 1935. They both worked there. Dad was in the legal department and my mom was in notions. She has this little notions counter where she sold stray thoughts, concepts and ideas</i>." (84)
<br /><br />48: Billy describes the <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2015/07/i-will-show-you-modernism-in-handful-of.html">iconic moment</a> in his childhood when none other than the legendary Billie Holiday (who was friends with his father) took him to see <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_%28film%29">Shane</a></i> at the movie theater. As the movie draws to a close and Shane rides off into the sunset, "<i>Miss Billie whispered in my ear, 'He ain't never coming back.'</i>"
<br /><br />56: "<i><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/02/more-vintage-valentines.html">Heroes don't have to be public figures</a> of any kind. Heroes are right in your family. There's amazing stories in all of our families, you just have to ask, 'And then what happened</i>?'"
<br /><br />69 - 71: "<i>May 30, 1956. Dad takes us to our first game at Yankee Stadium. . . . Someone took my program into the clubhouse, and it came out with several autographs on it, most notably Mickey Mantle's</i>."
<br /><br />78 - 79: "<i>. . . Remember that program Mantle signed in 1956? Well in 1977 . . . Mickey was a guest on the Dinah Shore show [along with Billy Crystal], and I brought the program, and he signed it again, 21 years later. We became good friends</i>.
<br /><br />"<i>In 1991 . . . an original seat from Yankee Stadium . . . was given to me. . . . Mickey signed the seat for me. It reads, 'Billy, wish you were still sitting here, and I was still playing.' When Mickey died, I thought my childhood had finally come to an end</i>."
</blockquote>
<br />
<b>2. Way back --</b>
<br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Before-We-Were-Yours-Novel/dp/0425284689"><i>Before We Were Yours</i></a> (2017)
<br />by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Wingate">Lisa Wingate</a> (b 1965)
<blockquote><b>Unlocking the cottage after a long absence:</b>
<br />139: <i>"Bitter and sweet. Familiar and strange. The tastes of life."</i>
<br /><br /><b>When she loses sight of her little sister:</b>
<br />157: <i>"The big boys don't answer when I ask where she is.
<br />They just shrug and go on playing a game of conkers with the buckeyes
<br />they pick up by the back fence.</i>
<br /><br /><b>Wondering why she doesn't
<br />come to the beach more often:</b>
<br />114 - 115: <i>"The answer tastes bitter, so I don't chew on it very long. Our schedules are always filled with other things. That's why.
<br /><br />"Who chooses the schedules we keep? We do, I guess.
<br /><br />"Although, so often it seems as if there isn't any choice."</i></blockquote>
<br /><b>3. Way back --</b> on "a March day that was like June" (88)
<br /><br /><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Sunday_%28novel%29">Mothering Sunday</a></i> (novel: 2016 & <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12229370/">movie</a>: 2021)
<br />by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Swift">Graham Swift</a> (b 1949)
<blockquote>3: "<i>Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more horses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do . . . with just a cook and a maid</i>"
<br /><br />37: "<i>All of her life she would try to see it, to bring back this Mothering Sunday, even as it receded and even as its very reason for existing became a historical oddity, the custom of another age</i>."
<br /><br />117 - 18: "<i>It was Mothering Sunday [March, 30] 1924. A different thing from the nonsense they call Mother's Day now. And she had no mother, you see. She was raised in an orphanage, then put into service. Another phrase you don't hear often these days</i>."
<br /><br /><b><b>The day she was born:</b></b>
<br>123: "<i>It was hard to think now of a time when half the world was 'in service.' She was born in 1901 . . . and she would grow up to become a maid, which anyone might have predicted. But to become a writer -- no one could have predicted that</i>."
<br /><br /><b>The day she first saw herself as herself,
<br>physically and intellectually:</b>
<br>87: "<i>She had never before had the luxury of so many mirrors. She had never before had the means to view her whole unclad self. All she had in her maid's room was a little square of a mirror, no bigger than one of the hall tiles.
<br /><br />"This is Jane Fairchild! This is me</i>!"
<br /><br /><b>The day her boss offered
<br>her a secondhand typewriter:</b>
<br>135: "<i>And that, you might say, was when she really became a writer. The third time. As well as at birth. As well as one fine day in March, when she was a maid</i>."
<br /><br />122: "<i>This was the great truth of of life, that fact and fiction were always merging, interchanging. And if you were a maid you weren't given [your birthday] off. And being a maid was a little like being an orphan, since you lived in someone else's house, you didn't have a home of your own to go to</i>.
<br /><br />"<i>Except on Mothering Sunday. When you did get the day off, to go home to your family</i>. Which would always put her at a bit of a loss."</blockquote>
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<br /><b>In a similar vein:</b> A "<a href="https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/philip-larkin/mcmxiv">kind of monument to loss</a>," the following poem by Philip Larkin captures "all that accumulated loss and grief" (124) that comes to the surface in Swift's <i>Mothering Sunday</i>.
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<blockquote><i><b><a href="https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/mcmxiv">MCMXIV</a></b>
<br /><br />Those long uneven lines
<br />Standing as patiently
<br />As if they were stretched outside
<br />The Oval or Villa Park,
<br />The crowns of hats, the sun
<br />On moustached archaic faces
<br />Grinning as if it were all
<br />An August Bank Holiday lark;
<br /><br />And the shut shops, the bleached
<br />Established names on the sunblinds,
<br />The farthings and sovereigns,
<br />And dark-clothed children at play
<br />Called after kings and queens,
<br />The tin advertisements
<br />For cocoa and twist, and the pubs
<br />Wide open all day;
<br /><br />And the countryside not caring
<br />The place-names all hazed over
<br />With flowering grasses, and fields
<br />Shadowing Domesday lines
<br />Under wheat's restless silence;
<br />The differently-dressed servants
<br />With tiny rooms in huge houses,
<br />The dust behind limousines;
<br /><br />Never such innocence,
<br />Never before or since,
<br />As changed itself to past
<br />Without a word—the men
<br />Leaving the gardens tidy,
<br />The thousands of marriages
<br />Lasting a little while longer:
<br /><b>Never such innocence again</b>.</i>
<br /><br /><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=larkin&max-results=20&by-date=true">Philip Larkin</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin">1922 - 1985</a>) </blockquote>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-83130469763073519202023-03-31T09:16:00.003-04:002023-06-23T18:16:15.197-04:00Like Absinthe<center><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Eden_%28novel%29">The Garden of Eden</a></b></i></center>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ubXsS3VzD-e22a_QtNeJyfwDoWnz_UlTcNvlDbEc9q0w2BHL7XTH3ob2dl5eoozbys6ExyfIJl8syKYxfVCsmhdPavNYv-tAAZsGYly6h5Uvzlte7JVXWkbrmRrHnMRuUD2olxI4EEuNJVjAbysicKI-PczInFaOiCO7-9cpDj7_VoqfWPVrBj8BAA/s353/Hemingway%20The_Garden_of_Eden.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="237" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ubXsS3VzD-e22a_QtNeJyfwDoWnz_UlTcNvlDbEc9q0w2BHL7XTH3ob2dl5eoozbys6ExyfIJl8syKYxfVCsmhdPavNYv-tAAZsGYly6h5Uvzlte7JVXWkbrmRrHnMRuUD2olxI4EEuNJVjAbysicKI-PczInFaOiCO7-9cpDj7_VoqfWPVrBj8BAA/w309-h460/Hemingway%20The_Garden_of_Eden.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://www.wikiart.org/en/juan-gris/woman-with-basket-1927">Woman with the Basket</a></i> (1927)
<br />by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Gris">Juan Gris</a> (1887 - 1927)</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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After failing to enjoy <i>Garden of Eden</i> as much as she thought she would, a friend of mine wrote to air her grievances and ask for advice about Hemingway:
<blockquote>"The best thing about this book is its cover! I was taken by the great art. And I adore baskets. But like baskets -- with naturally occurring holes -- this book has some miscues. It has some lapses for sure -- no wonder -- Hemingway had worked on it on and off for <i>feefteen</i> years (that’s purposely done)! That’s right! I have a right to be angry because women don’t behave as he portrays! And during those same 15 years, surprisingly, he also wrote and published <i>The old Man and the Sea</i>. I’m already sick of the absinthe and martinis coming from every other page -- brace yourself; drinks on you! So much more annoyed than I would be out on the sea with the old man."</blockquote>
My honest advice: I think it’s safe to say that you have given this book a fair chance, and you should now feel free to put it down without finishing! In fact, you are free to move on to another author completely and leave Hemingway behind. You gave it a try — that’s more than most!
<br /><br />I agree that it’s a lovely painting on the cover! I must confess that I have never read this novel, and per your review, I won’t be bumping it up to the top of my reading list!
<br /><br />It’s funny you should say that about absinthe because my favorite line in all of the Hemingway that I have read (I certainly cannot claim to have read the complete works) is from the short story "<a href="https://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/English%202500/Readings%20for%20English%202500/Hills%20Like%20White%20Elephants.pdf">Hills Like White Elephants</a>," in which the girl wants to try an absinthe flavored drink called “Anis Del Toro.”
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When the drinks come, her boyfriend asks how it tastes.
<br />
<br /><blockquote> <i>"It tastes like licorice," the girl said and put the glass down.
<br /><br />“That's the way with everything."
<br /><br />“Yes," said the girl. "Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you've waited so long for, like absinthe."</i></blockquote>
<br />The boy is trying to pressure the girl into terminating her pregnancy, and those lines totally capture the sadness of their relationship (and accurately sum up my feelings about black licorice).
<br /><br />Another sad one is "<a href="https://mt15000219.schoolwires.net/cms/lib/MT15000219/Centricity/Domain/97/In%20Another%20Country.pdf">In Another Country</a>," about soldiers getting experimental rehab for lost limbs. The story concludes with another unforgettable one - liner from Hemingway: <b><i>“I am utterly unable to resign myself.”</i></b> That breaks my heart every time.
<br /><br />You can pull these stories up for free on line if you want to read them (click titles above). They are very short, but also very sad. Still, I would recommend them, and you might like them more than “Garden of Eden.”
<br /><br />The sadness of Hemingway's wounded vet reminds me of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10216918889391953&set=a.1220677324535">this line from Cicero</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero">106 - 43 BC</a>), concerning the death of his adult daughter, who died shortly after childbirth: "<i> . . . he read everything that the Greek philosophers had written about overcoming grief, <b>‘but my sorrow defeats all consolation.’</b></i> ”
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Another sad one:
<br />"<a href="https://yale.learningu.org/download/51358dbc-0c73-4e33-8cfb-967c55a621f5/H2976_Hemingway_A%20Clean%20Well%20Lighted%20Place.pdf">A Clean, Well - Lighted Place</a>"
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The Van Gogh paintings capture the tone:
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<br />by <a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/search?q=Van+Gogh">Vincent Van Gogh</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh">1853 - 1890</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>
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Exterior vs Interior</center>
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<center>What I want for Christmas (<a href="https://www.inchcalculator.com/days-until-christmas-calculator/">only 10 short months away</a>):
<br>a film version of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/07/cassandra-darke-by-posy-simmonds-review"><i>Cassandra Darke</i></a>
<br>so I can add it to my long list of <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-too-many-christmas-carols_4.html">Scrooge favorites</a>.</center>
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<br><b>TO DO LIST for a fun start to the New Year:</b> First, go ahead and read <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cassandra-Darke-Posy.../dp/0224089099">Cassandra Darke</a></i> while it's still wintry outside. It won't take long, and it will inspire you "to keep Christmas in your heart all the year."
<br><br>Next, take a look at these books and movies, in which <a href="https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-144-posy-simmonds">Posy Simmonds</a> -- cartoonist, illustrator, and writer extraordinaire -- re-enlivens Emma Bovary and Bathsheba Everdene. In her clever and crafty retelling of each story, Simmonds shifts their 19th century troubles into conflicts more pertinent and accessible -- and entertaining! -- to a 21st century audience.
<br><br><b>Project #1</b>
<br>read <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary">Madame Bovary</a></i> by <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2016/02/colored-panes-flaubert-pearce.html">Gustave Flaubert</a> (1856)
<br>watch the film -- so many good versions, pick <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary_%282014_film%29">one</a> or more
<br>read <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Bovery">Gemma Bovery</a></i> the graphic novel by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posy_Simmonds">Posy Simmonds</a> (1999)
<br>watch the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Bovery_%28film%29">film</a> (2014)
<br><br><b>Project #2</b>
<br>read <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd">Far From the Madding Crowd</a></i> by <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=thomas+hardy">Thomas</a> <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=thomas+hardy">Hardy</a> (1874)
<br>watch the film --so many good versions, pick <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_from_the_Madding_Crowd_%282015_film%29">one</a> or more
<br>read <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Drewe">Tamara Drewe</a></i> the graphic novel by <a href="https://artinyorkshire.org.uk/artist/posy-simmonds/">Posy Simmonds</a> (2005)
<br>watch the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Drewe_%28film%29">film</a> (2010)
<br><br><b>Extra Credit Project</b>
<br>No Posy Simmonds tie - in for this one,
<br>but still a most enjoyable sequence:
<br>read <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_%28novel%29">Emma</a></i> by <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=jane+austen">Jane</a> <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=jane+austen">Austen</a> (1815)
<br>watch one of the <a href="https://screenrant.com/emma-movies-adaptations-ranked-worst-best/">many good versions</a> of the film
<br>watch <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clueless">Clueless</a></i> (1995)
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I do have one quibble about the email that the juvenile delinquents send from Tamara Drewe's laptop. The subsequent action depends entirely on all three recipients knowing that all three of them have received the message. But look at the drawing: Andy has been bcc'd -- meaning that he would NOT know about the other two and the other two would not know about him. How could clever Posy Simmonds make such a crucial mistake -- and her editors let her down like this? My guess is that Simmonds thought the drawing would have a cute symmetrical look with one guy's name on each line of the email header, without stopping to think that it wouldn't make sense that way.
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In the movie, it doesn't matter, because we hear the event described in conversation; but in the book, seeing the "bcc" totally botches the meaning. Has anyone else noticed? I can't find any reference to it as a "blooper," not even in <a href="https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/tamara-drewe-posy-simmonds/">this otherwise thorough review of the book</a>:
<blockquote>"Jody opens up Tamara’s email and – drunk – addresses an email to Ben, Nick and Andy, subject: ‘Love’, text: ‘I want to give you the biggest shagging of your life’. And before petrified Casey can stop her, Jody presses send. Because she cc-ed the others, all three can see the message was sent to the other two as well as themselves."</blockquote>
No! Incorrect! This description does NOT reflect what the drawing indicates. I'd feel better if the reviewer [<a href="https://astrofella.wordpress.com/about/">Simon at astrofella</a>] had read the text carefully enough to detect the error, as I did. Instead, it seems that he and perhaps most readers simply make a mental correction and move right along -- or maybe don't notice it at all.
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In addition to overlooking the "bcc" mistake, Simon refers to Tamara as being on the phone to her mother, which can't be right because her mother is dead! I'm curious to read his long reivews of <i>Gemma Bovery</i> and <i>Cassandra Darke</i>, but I shall proceed wary of unreliable narration and less than careful attention to detail!
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On the topic of <a href="https://brandonrobshaw.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/spot-the-error/">carelessness</a>, language blogger Brandon Robshaw [here's <a href="https://brandonrobshaw.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/worst-christmas-carol-lyric-ever/">a good one</a>] was recently calling out the error of referring to suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst as "Emily."
<br><br><b>My thoughts in response:</b> "Brandon, like you, I am a watchdog for sexism; but in this case, I might attribute the error to sheer carelessness.
<br><br>"Emmeline Pankhurst was real, and deserves to be called by her name. Yet, even in fiction, such carelessness is frustrating. I recently read an otherwise well – written novel that confuses “Cc” and “Bcc” as methods of sending an email, although the plot twist depends on who has seen which email. Apparently neither author nor editor nor proofreader (nor numerous tolerant readers) understand or care that a “Bcc” message would not reveal every other recipient. Careless!
<br><br>"Searching for some commentary on this rather important mistake and its impact on the subplot, I read a serious review that glosses glibly over the “Bcc” error; and — insult to injury –goes on to refer to a deceased character as alive and speaking on the telephone. Careless, careless!
<br><br>"As careful readers, I think we may underestimate the very high tolerance for carelessness."
<br><br><b>Brandon:</b> "Agreed: carelessness is infuriating to the careful."Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-35913413788289245982023-01-01T11:58:00.083-05:002023-04-10T11:18:41.051-04:00Little Match Girl<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEhn0Y6QZ7A17LKINfM7J6Cq0Yll9GjPPpHczwUnha4gtD9AXtUkdd2W1FDI8tClV0uFJMkg0yvCmRXrRUC08dAg7cBWYmJYVRBbc5fY2bRRAW1CcYvRct_6cMBIdTVyjdgMNKUHhj0GBAjXdg9bPaa88DZM2ib5J3vk4zQs_hqYXgRZmhEP1C9UDhQ/s800/Snow%20Painting%20Like%20Philly.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="526" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpEhn0Y6QZ7A17LKINfM7J6Cq0Yll9GjPPpHczwUnha4gtD9AXtUkdd2W1FDI8tClV0uFJMkg0yvCmRXrRUC08dAg7cBWYmJYVRBbc5fY2bRRAW1CcYvRct_6cMBIdTVyjdgMNKUHhj0GBAjXdg9bPaa88DZM2ib5J3vk4zQs_hqYXgRZmhEP1C9UDhQ/w363-h552/Snow%20Painting%20Like%20Philly.jpg" width="363" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>~ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AgingAbundantly/photos/a.377833115996/10158792999620997/">Reminds me of Philly</a> ~
<br>Thanks <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/pfbid0XimUwA8T7goFaq9e6rgCMPaEwBKnq8pN4e5suUj6nNC2iUj96yxk85zyaZUKA9b8l">Nikki</a>!
<br>Painting by <a href="https://richardsavoieart.com/en/about-richard-savoie/">Richard Savoie</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/12/little-golden-christmas.html">Last month</a>, my sisters and I were reminiscing about various Christmas books from our childhood. One title that came to mind was <a href="https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-andersen/short-story/the-little-match-girl"><i>The Little Match Girl</i></a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Match_Girl">Hans Christian Andersen</a>. This sweet, sad story has been <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=little+match+girl&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjg6eD2ktD9AhXrK1kFHXZ8AigQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1366&bih=600&dpr=1">illustrated, beautifully, many times</a> over the centuries, but naturally, our holiday nostalgia tends toward the version we grew up with.
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<center>My younger sister, Diane, said to me,
<br><br>"As a child,
<br>I don't remember feeling happy when reading it.
<br>Yet I was drawn to it."
<br><br>She was curious to see once again the illustrations
<br>imprinted in our collective memory:
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Just as we remember!
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The story appears in this anthology;
<br>but, sadly, no artist's name is given.
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<br><b>For additional commentary
<br>on the topic of children out in the cold,</b>
<br> take a look at this excellent blogpost
<br>on "The Little Match Girl,"
<br>Wordsworth, Dickens, and more:
<br><b><a href="https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/73081/reading-snow">Memories of Snow in Literature</a></b></center> Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-77649962411931932872022-12-25T12:08:00.178-05:002023-03-09T19:34:52.881-05:00Little Golden Christmas<center>So many Little Golden Treasures,
<br>re-discovered while sorting through
<br>old Christmas storybooks from childhood:
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See the inscriptions?
<br>My sister Peggy's Little Golden
<br>Christmas book from the 1950s,
<br>and
<br>her son Jerrod's Little Golden
<br>Christmas book from the 1970s!
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We all loved this one!
<br> But did we know that it was illustrated
<br>by the legendary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry">Richard Scarry</a>?
<br>I don't think so!
<br><br>I assumed that his popularity began when
<br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2016/10/ai-is-easy.html">our kids</a> were small,
not “back in the day”
<br>when my siblings and I were little tykes!
<br> ~ Copyright 1950 ~
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The page I remember best:
<br>The apple in the snow!
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<br>Speaking of legendary,
<br>when it comes to <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-golden-books.html">nostalgic illustrators</a>,
<br>no one compares to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloise_Wilkin">Eloise Wilkin</a>:
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<br>If you no longer have every little
<br>book from childhood, never fear!
<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Christmas-Learned-Little-Golden/dp/0553497359">This fun anthology</a> is filled with favorite pages,
<br>some long forgotten, some long - remembered!
<br>The selections range from 1946 - 2011,
<br>generations of Golden Christmas Memories!
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<br /><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2012/11/like-ant.html">Sir Edward John Poynter</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poynter">1836 - 1919</a>)
<br /><br />Thanks to my friend and Patron of the Arts, Sir Igor
<br />for choosing this beautiful blue library painting,
<br />now on display in our new library, also painted blue!</b>
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWLp2DJhw5KCUdf6ICBV5cuOIp6cyHeiJozYlYQXPtVn0HhwXT1SpMV_lP5hgxG7sdJ8GLA9QbQbKnddT1ra9fytrTLr96_PxOxxBw5O5TLxDUvAnre9irh6JAl3FCz4mJv9KY6TRR246Rek4fnX1z-7rDBPGTeoLAWsPobFxZIyBS3xxDZVoaeninA/s4032/2022-08-11%2020.33.23.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLWLp2DJhw5KCUdf6ICBV5cuOIp6cyHeiJozYlYQXPtVn0HhwXT1SpMV_lP5hgxG7sdJ8GLA9QbQbKnddT1ra9fytrTLr96_PxOxxBw5O5TLxDUvAnre9irh6JAl3FCz4mJv9KY6TRR246Rek4fnX1z-7rDBPGTeoLAWsPobFxZIyBS3xxDZVoaeninA/w333-h444/2022-08-11%2020.33.23.jpg" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>See the painting on the shelf, just above
<br /><i>A Christmas Carol Pop-Up Book</i>,
<br />likewise a gift from Uncle Igor!</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br />features an arched doorway and a gold ribbon mirror.
<br />So, truly, this painting is perfect for this house!</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br>The library is lined with blue shelves,
<br>upon which I have managed to alphabetize all the
<br>fiction from Louisa May Alcott to Banana Yoshimoto.
<br>With the non-fiction, I always have more trouble
<br>sticking to the alphabet. In the end most of it
<br>has made its way to various sub - categories
<br>and groupings that may or may not make sense
<br>to anyone else but me. But who's counting?</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br>We went to the Habitat Re-Store,
<br>found a 2nd - hand baby changing table;
<br>and Gerry refinished it as a matching TV stand.</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br>~ <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2014/01/mccartney-library-carriker-collection.html">McCartney Addition</a> ~
<br>but an equally loveable space, in a different way.
<br>Instead of a side porch - turned - nook, we have a
<br>shelf - lined library - den - TV room - study - family room.
<br>Or, as they say in England: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-room-of-the-house-are-the-British-referring-to-when-they-say-the-snug">The Snug</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<center><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226600536307075&set=a.1220677324535">On the shelves . . . </a></center>
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<blockquote><center>A Note to my friend Kathie
<br>[who sent me the Botero Set]</center>
<br>Can you see what's on the shelf just above the Botero? Books by Leonard Orr and his daughter Leah Orr. The dark blue <i>Yeats and Postmodernism</i> contains an essay by you and one by me; the orange one next to it, an essay by Joe Buttigieg! I bought <i>Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte</i> because the author refers to Celine Carrigan's work on the role of the governess in fiction. Right next to that is Victoria Amador's definitive bio of Olivia de Havilland: <i>Lady Triumphant</i>, Jan Donley's novel <i>The Side Door</i>, Terry Galloway's memoir <i>Mean Little Deaf Queer</i>, <i>The Good Psychologist</i> by Noam Shpancer, <i>Lost Girls</i> by Laurie Fox, and more!</blockquote>
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<center><b>I ordered a used book from amazon
<br />and found this old card
<br />stuck inside as a bookmark!
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/pfbid02i6hrCRtj5ve9rB9R6Z6PuruJzKEdKLEn5bTo8oHEZC8VNtLYxxoFA2bAE8VZm29zl?">Reading Certificates</a>
<br />My mom’s from 1939, and
<br />my older siblings' from 1959!
<br />Same program — 20 years later!
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I finally completed my list!</b></center>
<br /><br />
<b>5. about your country</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Theodosia-Anya-Seton/dp/0544242092"> My Theodosia: A Novel</a></i> by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Katherine-Anya-Seton/dp/0544222881/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460824952&sr=8-1&keywords=anya+seton">Anya Seton</a>
<br /><br />Historical fiction about the life of Aaron Burr's daughter,
<br />very well researched, though not new (1941).
<br /> <a href="https://thedreamstress.com/2011/06/friday-reads-my-theodosia/">Somewhat problematic</a> yet still of <a href="https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3776&context=etd">scholarly interest</a>.</blockquote>
<center>Lin-Manuel Miranda could use it
<br />as the basis for a sequel to <i>Hamilton</i>!</center>
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<br /><br /><b>
6. under a tree</b>
<br><br>
<center>Thanks to <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2017/03/triumverate.html">Katie Field</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/chris.jarmick/posts/pfbid0CWv5Rws3DCiD98yymb5oHxNmv5EAzcfWsYEaSb2wyyhRE3tbTPJeL5D3nyCrqtwVl">Chris Jarmick</a> for suggesting
<br> the perfect novel for me to read while sitting under
<br>the huge Virginia Magnolia in my front yard:
<br><br><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory">The Overstory</a></i> by Richard Powers
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" . . . <i>way down in the understory,
<br>her own body seems freakishly small
<br>like one of those acorn - people
<br>she made in childhood</i>" (154).</center>
<blockquote>"<i>But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree . . . trees are social creatures. It's obvious to her: motionless things that grow in mass mixed communities must have evolved ways to synchronize with one another. Nature knows few loner trees</i>" (115, 122) </blockquote>
<br /><b>7. about friendship </b>
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<center>Not as easy as you might think to find
<br />a good strong fictional friendship.
<br />However, I recently read this zany
<br />little series by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Velthuijs">Max Velthuijs</a>.
<br />Gave a few as gifts; fun for kids (I think).</center>
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<br />Book 1: Frog and the Birdsong (1991)
<br />Book 2: Frog in Winter (1993)
<br />Book 3: Frog is Frightened (1995)
<br />Book 4: Frog is Frog (1998)
<br />Book 5: Frog and the Stranger (200)
<br />Book 6: Frog and the Wide World (1991)
<br />Book 7: Frog is Sad (2003)
<br />Book 8: Frog and a Very Special Day (2008)
<br />Book 9: Frog Finds a Friend (2010)
<br />Book 10: Frog is a Hero (2014)
<br />Book 11: Frog in Love (2014)
<br />Book 12: Where is Frog? (2017)
<br />Board Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0862648807/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1">Frog & Duck</a> (above)</td></tr></tbody></table>
<br /><br /><b>8. about space</b>
<br><br>
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<br />The Story of the Apollo Moon Landings</i></a>
<br />by
<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Astronauts-Landings-Hallmark-Childrens-Editions/dp/B019YWAUC2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EHRUXJ6WGLN0&keywords=astronauts+on+the+moon+hallmark&qid=1665361258&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjkwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=astronauts+on+the+moon+hallmark%2Cstripbooks%2C50&sr=1-1">Stanley Hendricks (Author)
<br />& Al Muenchen (Illustrator)</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote>One of the coolest pull tab / pop up books ever! It must have been a Christmas present for my
little brother Aaron in 1969, but we all loved it. When I showed it to Ellie this summer, Ben loved it too
and couldn't believe he had never seen it before: "Mom, where was this book during <b><i>MY</i></b> entire childhood?"
<br><br>Sadly, it was in storage at my parents' house in an old box that had remained unopened for years.
Thank goodness we re-discovered a few old childhood treasures, and this book is finally back in circulation -- and in perfect pop - up condition for <a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/07/such-goings-on.html">Ellie & Aidan</a>!</blockquote>
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<br /><b>9. in a blanket fort</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58690308-book-lovers">Book Lovers</a></i> by Emily Henry
<br /><br />This is the perfect novel to read in a blanket fort, because, as adults, the main characters, sisters Nora and Libby, build themselves a blanket fort on their get away vacation, as a throw-back tribute to their childhood:
<br /><br />"<i>On Hepburn nights, the three of us would each pick out one of Mom's over-the-top vintage robes and curl up in front of the TV with a root beer float and a pizza, or decaf and chocolate pie, and watch an old black-and-white movie.
<br /><br />"Mom would cry during her favorite scenes . . . I loved those nights. They taught me that heartbreak, like most things, was a solvable puzzle. . . .
<br /><br />"It's only six o'clock, but we change into our pajamas -- including our silk robes. We drag the blankets off the bed in the loft and down the iron spiral staircase to the couch and pop in the first DVD from the Best of Katherine Hepburn box set . . . </i>(48 - 49)</blockquote>
<br /><b>10. to a pet</b>
<blockquote>I do all my reading on the bed with these two,
<br />so they've heard it all!</blockquote>
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<br /><b>11. a book with a color in the title</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Haunts-Black-Masseur-Swimmer-Hero/dp/0816635390/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EB3N6GHBVVID&keywords=haunts+of+the+black+masseur&qid=1674613644&s=books&sprefix=haunts+of+the+bla%2Cstripbooks%2C57&sr=1-1">Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero</a></i>
<br />by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/23/charles-sprawson-obituary">Charles Sprawson</a>
<br /><br />Swimming as Meditation: Part memoir, part art history & literary analysis: “a scholarly look at the true character of swimmers – isolated souls that somehow find fulfillment in a lonely sensory-deprived act.”
<br /><br />“<i>At a very young age, I began to form a vague conception of the swimmer as someone rather remote and divorced from everyday life, devoted to a mode of exercise where most of the body remains submerged and self-absorbed. It seemed to me that it appealed to the introverted and eccentric, individualists involved in a mental world of their own.</i>” (5)
<br /><br /><center>[More on this book at a later date . . . ]</center></blockquote>
<br /><b>12. a book with chapters</b>
<br />
<blockquote>
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8563789-where-things-come-back">Where Things Come Back</a> by John Corey Whaley
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<br />I appreciate an author who takes the time
<br />to include clever subdivisions and subtitles!</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br />Some favorite passages:
<br /><br />. . . when the character Rameel met his wife Isadora:
<br /><br />" <i>'It was like looking at the sun and not going blind,' Ramell said of his first sight of Isadora.
<br />'That beautiful? huh,' Benton asked.
<br />'Been-tone, my family's faces shine like the light of God.</i>' " (40)
<br /><br />"<i>Upon graduating with his degreein philosophy, Cabot Searcy was told by his father that he couldn't have wasted more money or time if he'd tried. Cabot grinned at this, leaned close to his father's right ear, and told him to wait and see.</i>" (135)
<br /><br />"<i>If you've never been to Lily, and I bet you haven't, then you need to know . . . that, for a small town in the middle of nowhere, it seems to be a very clean, well0kept sort of place. Lily is the kind of place you'd like to move to some short time before you die. If at any other timein your life you think you need the peace and quiet of Lily, Arkansas, then you should either see a therapist or stay there for a week and try to find anything half-entertaining to do.</i>" (10)</blockquote>
<br /><b>13. at breakfast</b>
<br /><blockquote>Every morning at breakfast, I read <i><a href="https://www.thedailyupside.com/">The Daily Upside</a></i>
<br><br>A few more I try to catch every day or so:
<br><a href="https://brandonrobshaw.wordpress.com/about/">Brandon Robshaw</a>
<br><a href="https://thecorners.substack.com/">The Corners</a>
<br><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/">The Marginalian</a>
<br><a href="https://savedbydesign.wordpress.com/">Saved by Design</a>
<br><a href="https://www.slowboring.com/">Slow Boring</a>
<br><a href="https://waitbutwhy.com/">Wait But Why</a>
</blockquote>
<br /><b>14. about a city far away</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Illustrated-Henryk-Sienkiewicz/dp/1088441696/ref=sr_1_7_sspa?keywords=quo+vadis&qid=1674257025&sr=8-7-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUE2SUlRMktJVTdYRFAmZW5jcnlwdGVkSWQ9QTAzMzAxMjcxVUFBT0QyVFIyTjBDJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTEwMjAwMjIyVEJCVUM5QTFIV0xTJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfbXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==">Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero</a></i>
<br />by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz">Henryk Sienkiewicz</a>
<br /><br />Takes place long ago and faraway in the city Rome (c. AD 64)
<br /><br /><center><b>[More on this novel: <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/01/emerald-eye.html">Emerald Eye</a>]</b></center></blockquote>
<br />
<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/06/summer-books.html"><b>See June</b></a>
<br />1. by flashlight
<br />2. in a funny accent
<br />4. as a family
<br />15. a book of poems
<br /><br />
<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/07/such-goings-on.html"><b>See July</b></a>
<br />19. to a sibling
<br /><br />
<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/08/summer-books-beach.html"><b>See August</b></a>
<br />16. about your favorite animal
<br />17. a mystery
<br /><br />
<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/09/summer-books-comic-funny.html"><b>See September</b></a>
<br />3. a comic book
<br />18. a funny bookKitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-258261139429721502022-09-17T00:48:00.002-04:002022-10-04T00:39:09.716-04:00Summer Books: Comic & Funny<center> <a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/06/summer-books.html"><b>More Summer Reading</b></a></center>
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<br><br>~ Katie Letcher Lyle ~
<br><i><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/08/going-barefoot.html">I Will Go Barefoot All Summer For You</a></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<b>3. a comic book</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tom-s-Midnight-Garden-Graphic-Novel-Paperback-9780062696564/432064149">Tom's Midnight Garden:
<br />A Graphic Adaptation of the Philippa Pearce Classic</a></i></blockquote>
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<center> Also, a <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2016/02/colored-panes-flaubert-pearce.html">wonderful novel</a> in its original format
<br />& an <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146315/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0">enchanting movie</a> (if you can find a copy).</center>
<br /><br />
<b>18. a funny book</b>
<blockquote>The entire <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Planet-Nathan-W-Pyle/dp/0062970704/ref=sr_1_1?crid=53R5PTS5KTHF&keywords=strange+planet&qid=1664858272&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjgzIiwicXNhIjoiMi45NSIsInFzcCI6IjIuNzgifQ%3D%3D&s=books&sprefix=strange+planet%2Cstripbooks%2C93&sr=1-1">Strange Planet</a> series by <a href="https://nathanwpyle.threadless.com/about">Nathan Pyle</a>!
<br /><br /><b>Recent favorites:</b>
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</blockquote>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-83485264061330197142022-08-31T17:31:00.406-04:002023-04-14T12:13:14.004-04:00Summer Books: The Beach<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XSWKT68Ggeil4E_XIm4GbIAaP-TvjTpMJkJgP5mJAyGM3DvemE9Vue060LVycCRvfxAr4wxxFbdHUsiez3iAqkLvIUsORyj3xQgWs1DbYGdp9Xcok7wp7zeDoYz94cZQy7DqyAFgHPIyJu1opdjTmsC8p5GD-zdXChfE6no5p5ovFKNZ6iExEQkmGg/s4032/2022-08-21%2017.35.22.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XSWKT68Ggeil4E_XIm4GbIAaP-TvjTpMJkJgP5mJAyGM3DvemE9Vue060LVycCRvfxAr4wxxFbdHUsiez3iAqkLvIUsORyj3xQgWs1DbYGdp9Xcok7wp7zeDoYz94cZQy7DqyAFgHPIyJu1opdjTmsC8p5GD-zdXChfE6no5p5ovFKNZ6iExEQkmGg/w463-h348/2022-08-21%2017.35.22.jpg" width="463" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table>
<center><b>Still reading my way through
<br>the lazy hazy crazy days of summer!</b>
<br><br>Thanks to my friend <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2017/03/triumverate.html">Katie</a>
<br />for these perfect beach suggestions,
<br />which also just so happen to fulfill
<br />a couple of the requirements on my
<br /> ~ <a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/06/summer-books.html">Summer Reading List</a> ~ </center>
<br /><b>16. about your favorite animal</b> [or some other animal! right?]
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Little-Gentleman-Philippa-Pearce/dp/0060731605/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19JV771F5MNNS&keywords=The+little+gentleman+pearce&qid=1657168221&s=books&sprefix=the+little+gentleman+pearce%2Cstripbooks%2C69&sr=1-1">The Little Gentleman</a></i> by <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-bookgiving.html">Philippa Pearce</a>
<br><br>
"<i>So, this time, Bet set off alone. The afternoon sun shone weakly, hardly warming her; raindrops from the long grass sprinkled her legs and fell into her sandals, but the air smelled fresh and sweet after the rain. A heron rose from the river ahead of her and sailed aloft on huge, leisurely wings. Her spirits rose and sailed with the bird. She did not hurry. She simply strolled toward the log as though the rest of the day belong to her, alone and free.</i>" (p. 21)
<br /><br /><i>The Little Gentleman</i> is just right for a day at the beach, a playful novel that can be read quickly, like a short story, containing some beautiful imagery, a little fiction, <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/moles-culloden-are-celebrated-historians-1582831">a little history</a>, a little witchcraft, a lot of literary allusion.
<br /><br />I wish the cat, named Moon, played a greater — and more positive — role. On Bet's first outing to the magical reading log in the meadow, Moon goes along and purrs quietly while Bet reads to the unseen "Little Gentleman" who lives in the "<i>Chthonic</i> . . . underworld beneath the surface of the earth" (140). But the next thing you know, Moon is pouncing aggressively and having <i>The Complete Poetic Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson in One Volume</i> hurled in his direction as a weapon (42). Instead of making Moon a "fiercly intent" antagonist, Pearce might have cast him as a co - adventurer, merely curious, not scary (42, 151 - 53). Was the author afraid of cats?
<br /><br />This is one of Pearce’s later works (2004), not yet written during my own childhood but reminiscent of all the “inside a girl’s head” kind of stories that I loved in those days: a mole who can talk and live forever, who can read Tennyson and Darwin, and travel through time; a girl who spends all day in meadows and libraries, talks to animals, and travels through space!
<br /><br />The writing career of Philippa Pearce (1920 - 2006) spanned decades, but even her earlier works -- <i><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2016/01/young-adult.html">Tom's Midnight Garden</a></i> (1958) and <i><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-bookgiving.html">The Children of Charlecote</a></i> (1968) were unknown to me until a few years ago. So glad I have discovered them at last!
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<center>Crazy coincidence: a day or so after I finished <br><i>The Little Gentleman</i>, I saw <i>this</i> little creature
<br>running around out on our back patio!
<br>Was it the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/baf007/posts/pfbid0yhet64nCdcfdXoUeu8JQmZTToDQAjB9kP87DuQdedUARbW2xDmZjMYFXcjbUZdETl">Week of the Mole</a>?
<br>Gerry has since informed me
<br>that it was probably a <a href="https://www.jcehrlich.com/other-wildlife/differences-between-moles-voles-shrews/">vole</a>, but I'll take it!
<br><br>Furthermore, how about those GIANT raindrops?
<br>Crazily, the sun was shining brightly when
<br>suddenly it just started pouring simultaneously!
<br>That seems to happen a lot here!</center>
<br><br><b>17. a mystery</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors">The Nine Tailors</a></i> by <a href="https://www.sayers.org.uk/">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>
<br>some <a href="http://www.geoffprewett.com/BookReviews/NineTailors.html">background</a> reading & a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMnsy8fp5I">mini-series</a>
<br><br>One of the best things about our new location is hearing the hourly bells that ring out from <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-long-nights-of-lent.html">the church across the street</a>, every hour from 9am - 9pm, with a brief hymn concert included at 3pm every day; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus">Angelus</a> at noon and 6pm; and another joyful clamor of bells at 5pm! Truly lovely!
<br><br>Katie happened to call one day right at 3pm, so I carried the phone outside in order to share the bell concert with her. That's what inspired her to recommend this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey">Peter Wimsey</a> mystery, the "<a href="https://wadecenterblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/sacred-and-secular/">nine tailors</a>" referring to <a href="https://www.treblesgoing.org.uk/ninetailors.html">nine loud strokes of the tenor bell</a> [the traditional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_knell">Death Knell</a>].
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<center><b>Charlottesville Moment:
<br>Sun is shining!
<br>Rain is pouring down!!
<br>Bells are ringing out!!!</b></center>
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Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-43120176559096663842022-07-31T20:53:00.007-04:002023-05-03T01:41:51.665-04:00Summer Books: Such Goings - On<center>I haven't been doing much reading this summer,
<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/03/ellie-reading.html">but Ellie has</a>! And Aidan is learning!
<br><br>Ben's caption:
<br><b>"Read with your brother;
<br>that's why we had him!"</b></center>
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<blockquote><i><b><a href="https://allpoetry.com/Notes-On-The-Art-Of-Poetry">Notes On The Art Of Poetry</a></b>
<br><br>I could never have dreamt that there were <b>such goings-on</b>
<br>in the world between the covers of books,
<br>such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,
<br>such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
<br>such and so many blinding bright lights,
<br>splashing all over the pages
<br>in a million bits and pieces
<br>all of which were words, words, words,
<br>and each of which were alive forever
<br>in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.</i>
<br><br><a href="https://howtoreadapoem.com/7-reading-poems-to-make-you-fall-in-love-with-books/">Dylan Thomas</a></blockquote>
<center><b>SUMMER BOOKS</b>
<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/06/summer-books.html">The List</a>
<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/07/such-goings-on.html">Such Goings - On</a>
<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/08/summer-books-beach.html">The Beach</a>
<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/09/summer-books-comic-funny.html">Comic & Funny</a>
<br><br><a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/10/summer-books-i-did-it.html">I Did It</a></center> Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-70212087709573868832022-06-30T22:54:00.166-04:002023-06-13T00:57:09.384-04:00Summer Books: The List<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOrpGIgJSzTtTE1V03InnnkQpmWAXV5ESWZOVCnpQ7Ip6KM-NOvRaWKGdSn6xKd7IZJWkIussjjtFRrvDskXI-fzLK4csuBL4RLAB-ufzI0q6J_KOLJWamu3MYyVCjf37VSI4brHLKP9rBeg-XVvxU-Ftk_wme7mL9zoeBk8yuaqssy2gdeB4xsSYGA/s765/Summer%20Reading%20Challenge.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="526" height="513" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOrpGIgJSzTtTE1V03InnnkQpmWAXV5ESWZOVCnpQ7Ip6KM-NOvRaWKGdSn6xKd7IZJWkIussjjtFRrvDskXI-fzLK4csuBL4RLAB-ufzI0q6J_KOLJWamu3MYyVCjf37VSI4brHLKP9rBeg-XVvxU-Ftk_wme7mL9zoeBk8yuaqssy2gdeB4xsSYGA/w353-h513/Summer%20Reading%20Challenge.jpg" width="353" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Designed for kids,
<br>including several read - alouds,
<br>but also fun for grown ups!</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br>
<center>"<i>The summer grew prettier and prettier,
<br>a long series of calm blue summer days</i>."
<br><br>from <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Book-Review-Books-Classics/dp/159017268X">The Summer Book</a></i>
<br>by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79550.The_Summer_Book">Tove Jansson</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Jansson">1914 - 2001</a>)</center>
<blockquote>Before reading all of the other books on your challenge list, I recommend starting with this summer story of a small family on a small island in Finland. Every page is filled with images of immersive midsummer light, capturing "<i>the allure of summer itself for these people who spend so much of the year in the dark</i>." </blockquote>
<br>
<b><center>READ [present tense verb]:</center>
<br>1. by flashlight</b> [or nightlight]
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthropocene-Reviewed-Signed-John-Green/dp/0525555218">The Anthropocene Reviewed</a></i> by <a href="https://www.johngreenbooks.com/bio">John Green</a>
<br><br>Somehow instead of the "Signed Edition" I ended up with the "Large Print Edition." But that's okay. That nice big font actually comes in handy when reading by nightlight -- a lifesaver when your hotel room is without a reading alcove and your traveling companion falls asleep before you.
<br><br>So, as it turns out, I have already fulfilled my flashlight requirement by staying up super - late reading the first few chapters of this book by the glow of a tiny nightlight! [I'm all for tweaking the stipulations a little bit if need be!]
<br><br>p 142: "<i>Do I believe <b>in</b> God? I believe around God. But I can only believe <b>in</b> what I am in -- sunlight and shadow, oxygen and carbon dioxide, solar systems and galaxies</i>." Hey -- that's what I said: <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2009/08/monday-pop-quiz.html">The Miracle of Oxygen</a> & <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-believe-i-believe-i-know-its-silly_16.html">The Precession of the Equinoxes</a>!
<br><br>p 248: "<i>Tradition is a way of being with people, not just the people you're observing the traditions with now, but also all those who've ever observed them</i>."</blockquote>
<br><b>2. in a funny accent</b> [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmHG0bDpX4w">audio</a> ~ Cornish]
<blockquote><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier">The Birds</a></i> by <a href="https://www.dumaurier.org/">Daphne du Maurier</a></blockquote>
<br> <b>3. a comic book</b> ~ [<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/09/summer-books-comic-funny.html">Click for more</a>]
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tom-s-Midnight-Garden-Graphic-Novel-Paperback-9780062696564/432064149">Tom's Midnight Garden:
<br />A Graphic Adaptation of the Philippa Pearce Classic</a></i></blockquote>
<br /><b>4. as a family</b>
<blockquote>Family favorite author <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=bryson&max-results=20&by-date=true">Bill Bryson</a>'s uber - informative <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Body-Guide-Occupants-Bill-Bryson/dp/0804172722/ref=sr_1_1?crid=67BXZ01IISQS&keywords=bill+bryson+body&qid=1660834618&sprefix=bill+bryson+body%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-1"><i>The Body: A Guide for Occupants</i></a>. We read it sequentially (first Gerry, then me). I think that counts for "as a family." <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/search?q=bryson&max-results=20&by-date=true">Book after book</a>, year after year, <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=bryson&max-results=20&by-date=true">Bryson</a> never fails!
<br><br><b>The Body:</b>
<br>p 4 - 6: “<i>That is unquestionably the most astounding thing about us – that we are just a collection of inert components, the same stuff you would find in a pile of dirt. I’ve said it before in another book, but I believe it’s worth repeating: the only thing special about the elements that make you is that they make you. That is the miracle of life. . . . Altogether it takes 7 billion billion billion (that’s 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or 7 octillion) atoms to make you. No one can say why those 7 billion billion billion have such an urgent desire to be you. They are mindless particles, after all, without a single thought or notion between them. Yet somehow for the length of your existence, they will build and maintain all the countless systems and structures necessary to keep you humming, to make you you, to give you form and shape and let you enjoy the rare and supremely agreeable condition known as life. . . . But your atoms are just building blocks, and are not themselves alive. Where life begins, precisely is not easy to say. The basic unit of life is a cell -- everyone is agreed on that. The cell is full of busy things --ribosomes and proteins, DNA, RNA, mitochondria and much other cellular arcana, but none of those are themselves alive. The cell itself is just a compartment – a kind of little room: a <b>cell</b> -- to contain them, and of itself is as nonliving as any other room. Yet somehow when all of these things are brought together, you have life. That is the part that eludes science. I kind of hope it always will</i>.”
<br><br><b>The Brain:</b>
<br>p 48 - 49: “<i>The great paradox of the brain is that everything you know about the world is provided to you by an organ that has itself never seen that world. The brain exists in silence and darkness, like a dungeoned prisoner. It has no pain receptors, literally no feelings. It has never felt warm sunshine or a soft breeze. To your brain, the world is just a stream of electrical pulses, like taps of Morse code. And out of this bare and neutral information it creates for you—quite literally creates—a vibrant, three-dimensional, sensually engaging universe. Your brain is you. Everything else is just plumbing and scaffolding</i>.”
<br><br>p 50: " . . . <i>to quote the neuroscientist David Eagleman . . . [there are] as many connections ‘in a single cubic centimetre of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way</i>.’"
<br><br> <center>
For more on these neural connections & pathways,
<br>see my previous post: <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2015/09/twister.html">Twister</a>!
<br><br>Thus the persistent & perpetual
<br>importance of <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/">CONNECTION!</a></center>
</blockquote>
<br><b>5. about your country
<br><br />6. under a tree
<br /><br>7. about friendship
<br><br />8. about space
<br><br />9. in a blanket fort
<br><br />10. to a pet
<br><br />11. a book with a color in the title
<br><br />12. a book with chapters
<br><br />13. at breakfast
<br><br />14. about a city far away</b>
<br>
<br><br /><b>15. a book of poems</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Impermanence-Mindfulness-Joy/dp/1614293317/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OEGXVLCQ986F&keywords=poetry+of+impermanence&qid=1657167534&sprefix=poetry+of+impermanence%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1">The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy</a></i>
<br>Edited by <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-brehm">John Brehm</a>
<br><br>
<i><b><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-28.html">Days</a></b>
<br /><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-day-thats-in-it.html">What are days for?</a>
<br />Days are where we live.
<br />They come, they wake us
<br />Time and time over.
<br />They are to be happy in:
<br />Where can we live but days?
<br /><br />Ah, solving that question
<br />Brings the priest and the doctor
<br />In their long coats
<br />Running over the fields.</i>
<br /><br />by <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=larkin&max-results=20&by-date=true">Philip Larkin</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin">1922 - 1985</a>)
<br><br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2013/11/novembers-gold.html"><i><b>Nothing Gold Can Stay</b></a>
<br />
Nature's first green is gold,<br />
Her hardest hue to hold. <br />
Her early leaf's a flower;<br />
But only so an hour. <br />
Then leaf subsides to leaf.<br />
So Eden sank to grief, <br />
So dawn goes down to day.<br />
<a href="http://www.kittislist.blogspot.com/2013/06/fault-in-our-stars.html">Nothing gold can stay.</a></i><br />
<br />
by <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=Robert+Frost&max-results=20&by-date=true">Robert Frost</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost">1874 - 1963</a>)
</blockquote>
<br><b>16. about your favorite</b> [or other] <b>animal</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Little-Gentleman-Philippa-Pearce/dp/0060731605/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19JV771F5MNNS&keywords=The+little+gentleman+pearce&qid=1657168221&s=books&sprefix=the+little+gentleman+pearce%2Cstripbooks%2C69&sr=1-1">The Little Gentleman</a></i> by <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2017/11/happy-bookgiving.html">Philippa Pearce</a></blockquote>
<br><center>[For more on <b>16 & 17</b>, see
<br>"<a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/08/summer-books-beach.html">Summer Books: The Beach"</a>]</center>
<br><b>17. a mystery</b>
<blockquote><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors">The Nine Tailors</a></i> by <a href="https://www.sayers.org.uk/">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>
<br>some <a href="http://www.geoffprewett.com/BookReviews/NineTailors.html">background</a> reading & a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMnsy8fp5I">mini-series</a></blockquote>
<b> <br />18. a funny book</b> ~ [<a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/09/summer-books-comic-funny.html">Click for more</a>]
<blockquote>The entire <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086FG8KVF?searchxofy=true&binding=kindle_edition&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tkin&qid=1662915621&sr=8-1">Strange Planet</a> series by <a href="https://nathanwpyle.threadless.com/about">Nathan Pyle</a>!</blockquote>
<br /><b>19. to a sibling</b>: <blockquote>Take a look at Ellie Reading to Aidan: <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/07/such-goings-on.html">"Such Goings- On"</a>!</blockquote>
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<center>Ready, set, go! I will be back to fill
<br>in each line as the summer progresses!
<br>I hope to incorporate into the challenge
<br>a number of books that I have been meaning
<br> to read for months. Now is my chance!
<br><br><b>P.S.</b>
<br>I am NOT a fast reader.
<br><br><b>P.P.S.</b>
<br>Thanks to my friend
<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/2214576222016814:83">Cathy McKinnis</a> for this delightful idea! </center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-71852955816803437112022-05-30T11:50:00.018-04:002023-06-29T18:22:20.426-04:00Sawdust or Stardust?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlsOmZ7-hW6oS0tYTaoLgbR5Xzc6UAvyp_QKIEMYbKrnPOSQGT3HpCsDQ6ZOTsGNKVRAOUlXksSQc5nyEykQgpJjH6IG60LgxrSShXcm3Vc77NvOM5ziRBqzPkJsEtIqcnnwT6CAR0wlld2HEYYchRyyiWb9xPV0TlMEoX2xrksAbBPUlJ66puK-Y3g/s500/Jim%20Barnes%20Sawdust%20War.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="361" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjlsOmZ7-hW6oS0tYTaoLgbR5Xzc6UAvyp_QKIEMYbKrnPOSQGT3HpCsDQ6ZOTsGNKVRAOUlXksSQc5nyEykQgpJjH6IG60LgxrSShXcm3Vc77NvOM5ziRBqzPkJsEtIqcnnwT6CAR0wlld2HEYYchRyyiWb9xPV0TlMEoX2xrksAbBPUlJ66puK-Y3g/w325-h450/Jim%20Barnes%20Sawdust%20War.jpg" width="325" /></a></div>
<center>Poems by <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=jim+barnes&max-results=20&by-date=true">Jim</a> <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=jim+barnes&max-results=20&by-date=true">Barnes</a>
<br>my undergrad poetry professor and friend</center>
<blockquote>
<i><a href="http://www.versedaily.org/2020/thesawdustwar.shtml"><b>The Sawdust War</b></a>
<br /><br />On the early summer days I lay with back
<br />against the sawdust pile and felt the heat
<br />of a thousand pines, oaks, elms, sycamores
<br />flowing into my flesh, my nose alive
<br />with that peculiar smell of death the trees
<br />became. Odd to me then how the summer rain
<br />made the heat even more intense. Digging
<br />down the dust, <a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-wide-world-and-real-war.html">I began to reshape a world
<br />I hardly knew:</a> the crumbly terrain became
<br />theaters of the war. I was barely ten.
<br /><br />What I knew of the wide world and real war
<br />came down the valley's road or flew over
<br />the mountains I was caught between. Remote
<br />I was nightly glued to the radio,
<br />wondering at reports of a North African
<br />campaign and Europe falling into chaos.
<br />All daylight long I imitated what I
<br />thought I heard, molding sawdust into hills,
<br />roads, rivers, displacing troops of toys,
<br />claiming ground by avalanche and mortar
<br /><br />fire, advancing bravely into black cities,
<br />shrouding the fallen heroes with white bark.
<br />I gained good ground against the Axis through
<br />long summer days. Then one morning, dressed in
<br />drab for hard work of war, I saw real smoke
<br />rising from my battlefield. Crawling from
<br />beneath the sawdust like vague spider webs,
<br />claiming first the underground, then foxholes,
<br />it spread like a wave of poison gas across
<br />the woody hills I shaped with a mason's trowel.
<br /><br />I could not see the fire: it climbed from deep
<br />within. No matter how I dug or shifted dust,
<br />I could not find the source. My captured ground
<br />nightly sank into itself The gray smoke
<br />hovered like owls under the slow stillness
<br />of stars, until one night I woke to see,
<br />at the center, a circle of smoldering sparks
<br />turning to flame, ash spreading outward and down.
<br />All night the pile glowed red, and I grew ashamed
<br />for some fierce reason I could not then name.</i></blockquote>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv7FD2v_Slef5kjYUfNwVf-2TkwSRWBbOAjdU42rCpoj1e7ywU6KSizxB6lgh_0hbY4Cy76q-IjearDM3hfLLbsMuC7Rk1FgTP-s6YO-fjpfWLLXSM8amHD31X-p-Y0U95UX0JE_ggF5rkVQ0Yi-4fdYED0HjkKKCjOFDYCb-kxw4FcontcpQ8U69yw/s2560/Jim%20Barnes%20Sawdust%20War%20New%20Yorker.webp" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2553" data-original-width="2560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBv7FD2v_Slef5kjYUfNwVf-2TkwSRWBbOAjdU42rCpoj1e7ywU6KSizxB6lgh_0hbY4Cy76q-IjearDM3hfLLbsMuC7Rk1FgTP-s6YO-fjpfWLLXSM8amHD31X-p-Y0U95UX0JE_ggF5rkVQ0Yi-4fdYED0HjkKKCjOFDYCb-kxw4FcontcpQ8U69yw/s400/Jim%20Barnes%20Sawdust%20War%20New%20Yorker.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Illustration by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_DuBois">Gérard DuBois</a>
<br />for "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/the-cost-of-sentimentalizing-war-elizabeth-d-samet-looking-for-the-good-war">The Cost of Sentimentalizing War</a>"
<br><br>Perhaps not quite the same imagery as
<br>that of rural Northeast Oklahoma, but still
<br>a childhood infused with the details of war</b></td></tr></tbody></table>
<br />When I came across <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224488036895910&set=p.10224488036895910">this picture</a> in <i>The New Yorker</i> (November 29, 2021), I was reminded of the above poem, "The Sawdust War," with its 10-year-old narrator, "nightly glued to the radio" and the next day, in his innocence, imitating "what I thought I heard." The poet himself was just a kid at the time, which is how these poems -- written in the 1980s, about the 1940s -- convey the experience of WWII: through the eyes of a carefree yet apprehensive youngster, <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2010/07/tomatoes-gravy.html">growing up in rural Southeast Oklahoma</a>.
<br><br>
I wrote to tell Jim that I had been re-reading <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sawdust-War-POEMS-Jim-Barnes/dp/0252062396/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HUN2R5MXMAUO&keywords=sawdust+war&qid=1651204895&sprefix=sawdust+war%2Caps%2C118&sr=8-1"><i>The Sawdust War</i></a> and finding every poem so incredibly appropriate to the current atmosphere of confusion and wastefulness and disbelief, that it seemed his book could have been written this very week, rather than 1992. A straightforward enough message, right? But facebook had a different idea, morphing "<i><b>saw</b>dust</i>" into "<i><b>star</b>dust</i>." Or had I mis-typed that? But no, it kept happening. Every time I tried to type "Sawdust," facebook changed it to "Stardust." I swear it was not me -- it was spellcheck!
<br><br>The spelling corrector had obviously not read the poem and knew nothing about a curious child's ability to construct an entire world from sawdust and then to witness its self - combustion! Yes, that can really happen. See, it's a metaphor! Jim caught the error right away:
"Thanks, Kitti. But <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224488036895910&am p;set=p.10224488036895910"><i>The <b>Saw</b>dust War</i></a>, right? The gaze is earthward still. . . . Thank the stars that I got beyond the Sunday papers in far away 1944. <i>The <b>Star</b>dust War</i> maybe it should have been, but I made it <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jim.barnes.75286/posts/10227269619064140"><i>The <b>Saw</b>dust War</i></a>."
<blockquote>[<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jim.barnes.75286/posts/10227041728407016">Speaking of stardust</a>, this passage from <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2009/04/not-too-late-effect-of-gamma-rays-on.html">Paul Zindel</a>'s play is one of my all time favorites: "<i>For one thing, <a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2011/03/matryoshka-within-within-within.html">the effect of gamma rays on man in the moon marigolds</a> has made me curious about the sun and the stars, for the universe itself must be like a world of great atoms . . . but most important, I suppose my experiment has made me feel important--every atom in me, in everybody, has come from the sun--from places beyond our dreams. The atoms of our hands, the atoms of our hearts</i>" (101-02).]</blockquote>
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<br>
My readerly Nebraska friends were recently discussing the authors of their state: Willa Cather for fiction, Ted Kooser for poetry, Mari Sandoz for "grit and tough truths" (thanks Laura!). If <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stegner+cook&i=stripbooks&crid=1VQLN1L9XUCV7&sprefix=stegner+cook%2Cstripbooks%2C89&ref=nb_sb_noss">Wallace Stegner</a> and Ivan Doig seem lacking in authenticity, what other writers can provide "a rubric of art and fiction that can frame, intellectually and artistically, the experience of living farther West than Willa Cather was writing about"?
<br><br>The question of "a literary path through the Western States" (thanks Jim!) came at the perfect time for me because, coincidentally, I have just finished reading three very different books about life in the wild wild west -- not my usual genre, but a timely coincidence! These all take place further south, from whence I hail, but are still of interest to the train of thought:
<br><br>
1. <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders/dp/0307742482/ref=sr_1_1?crid=UYZ02H7QN6PG&amp;keywords=killers+of+the+flower+moon&amp;qid=1647670821&amp;sprefix=killers+of+the%2Caps%2C92&amp;sr=8-1">Killers of the Flower Moon:
<br>The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a></i>
<br>by David Grann
<blockquote>From the introduction: “<i>In April, millions of flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets. The Osage writer John Joseph Mathews observed that the galaxy of petals makes it look as if the " gods had left confetti". In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts, and black eyed Susans, begin to creep over the tinier blooms, stealing their light and water. The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground. This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon</i>.”
<br><br>From the conclusion: “<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/pfbid02byUMDSKQfmgxA4BX2bErK8f9UDB1p13ZS1EYBGVbaG474VX2Dnji9PLsMceoZuPNl">Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone—only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger</a></i>.”</blockquote>
An utterly sad and astonishing expose of evil in Northeastern Oklahoma, just a few miles south of where my parents (and all of their parents) grew up in Southeast Kansas. I wish my grandfather (1895 - 1983) were still alive so that I could ask him what he remembers about this terrible aspect of American history.
<br><br>Thanks to my cousin Sally for recommending. Everyone should read this informative, important book. It is being made into a movie, scheduled for release later in 2022. Hoping they do a good job!
<br /><br /><br>
2. <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803207697/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp&amp&psc=1%22">The Horse and Buggy Doctor: A Memoir</a></i>
<br>by <a href="https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/arthur-emanual-hertzler/12085%20">Arthur E. Hertzler</a>, M.D. (1870 - 1946)
<br><br>Again, like <i>The Sawdust War</i> (RE: Ukraine), could have been written today (RE: COVID):
<br />
<blockquote>"<i>It is all right to do fool things if someone is standing by able to protect us from the fruits of our folly. But, let it be emphasized, if the cultists [anti-vaxxers] inherited the earth the epidemic diseases wold be upon us with their original pristine terribleness. After more than sixty years [written in 1938, thinking back to 1878] I can still hear the eloquent prayers that filled the countryside when epidemics of diphtheria appeared. One tube of antitoxin will do more good than all of these. I have seen all of these things. A doctor, an M.D., must think the truth. Perhaps it would be better if he sometimes proclaimed it.</i>"</blockquote>
<br>3. <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Worst-Hard-Time-Survived-American/dp/0618773479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2FY3MB1LIQ7F4&keywords=worst+hard+time&qid=1653970031&sprefix=worst+hard+time%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-1">The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story
<br>of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl</a></i>
<br>by Timothy Egan
<br><br>and
<br><br><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Rainbelt-David-Wishart/dp/0803246188/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DMR15ADDMYO7&keywords=last+days+of+the+rainbelt+wishart&qid=1653970114&sprefix=last+days+of+the+rainbelt+wishart%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-1">The Last Days of the Rainbelt</a></i>
<br>by David J. Wishart
<br /><br />
These two are especially pertinent to the story of my grandfather's parents who came from Ohio to settle a homestead in Madrid, Nebraska. They were there from 1887 - 1895, before moving to Southeast Kansas where the drought was less severe.
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<br><br>
So there you have enough material,
<br>for a seminar on memoirs of the West,
<br> maybe even a two - semester course!
<br>Well, at least a blogpost!</center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-88230311305897534462022-04-30T23:55:00.023-04:002022-05-04T20:02:27.931-04:00Bookmobile<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5s9rfw4nSUnyjxh2USpuLdBkMDJZ9vqLSU-8e-Vlk-apvivhov21-E7oL0lH5mafHfwRfdpsUpp3Wackjuq3sedNTFiYuN4oXv_pRA9C6zJ9rdk_nDHVD_T0oI6yX0o9oT--hC93KmnRgYMRyFLYFj2f9nUI44zgaTkbrOTwCjFcykb7e9P-xuxN9Q/s800/Little%20Women%20Bookmobile.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="549" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu5s9rfw4nSUnyjxh2USpuLdBkMDJZ9vqLSU-8e-Vlk-apvivhov21-E7oL0lH5mafHfwRfdpsUpp3Wackjuq3sedNTFiYuN4oXv_pRA9C6zJ9rdk_nDHVD_T0oI6yX0o9oT--hC93KmnRgYMRyFLYFj2f9nUI44zgaTkbrOTwCjFcykb7e9P-xuxN9Q/w302-h441/Little%20Women%20Bookmobile.jpg" width="302" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b> ~ <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-bookmobile-Romance-young-moderns/dp/B0007DYETI?fbclid=IwAR0N6iWnvV8S5UOGqc5EwLw6u06dYaTfMMIpTSTsaq_oAhx1amtcmz3ljzg">1956</a> ~ </b></td></tr></tbody></table><center>Who doesn't love a neighborhood
<br>visit from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/eve.ash.18/posts/2760395244056097">Bookmobile</a>?
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Even more exciting than the ice cream truck circling our block every summer afternoon was the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10224674898367330">Bookmobile</a> arriving once every other week! I loved to enter the air - conditioned van, peruse all the choices, and check out <i>Little Women</i>. The illustrated version that was my favorite in 1968 is still a vived memory.
<br><br>Searching google images, I was disappointed not to come across an exact match for the book jacket that I remember so well. This 1960 abridged paperback is not exactly right but the closest I could find. My Bookmobile version was a big fat hardback with a laminated chartreuse cover. However, it had this same floral oval cameo motif; so I'm guessing it might have been the hardback companion to this paperback:
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<br><br> <center><b>More on Louisa May Alcott
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<br><br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2014/05/airplane-reading.html">Transcendentalists</a>
<br><br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2018/08/greener-grass-over-there.html">Orchard House</a>
<br><br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/2019/06/from-desk-of-simone-de-beauvoir-on-side.html">Simone de Beauvoir</a>
<br><br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=alcott&max-results=20&by-date=true">Jo March and More</a>
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<br><br>More happy memories from Bookmobile Days:
<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224717455751238&set=a.3316237272224">Author Cards!</a>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224717471911642&set=a.1527879644401">So many authors to learn about!</a>
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More recent editions:</b></center>
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Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-23707958462127523172022-03-31T23:51:00.278-04:002022-09-13T00:00:14.851-04:00A Year of Ellie Reading
<center><b><i>“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows
<br /> she can read printed words. . . . From that time on,
<br /> the world was hers for the reading.”</i></b>
<br /><br />from <a href="https://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks/Brooklyn/22/text.html"><i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i></a>
<br />by <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2013/07/girls-of-summer.html">Betty Smith</a>
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10221716896339128">December 11, 2020</a></b>
<br />Starting With One, Two, Three!
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<br /><b>January 29, 2021</b>
<br /><a href="http://kittislist.blogspot.com/2021/01/some-old-things-for-new-year-2.html">Seasonal</a> Magazines from Katie!
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10222333956205239">March 4, 2021</a></b>
<br />Highlights from Doris & Denis!
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<br /> <b>April 14, 2021</b>
<br />A Greeting Card from Aunt Sue!
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<br /><b>April 20,2021</b>
<br />More Highlights!
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<br /><b>April 27, 2021</b>
<br />A Real Page - Turner!
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<br />Finger Puppet Books ~ Thanks Sandy!
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10222713310728865">April 29, 2021</a></b>
<br />Grandpa, Read Me the Dragon Book!
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10223010340954435">June 12, 2021</a></b>
<br />Soon She'll Be Reading Music!
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<br /><b>July 17, 2021</b>
<br />Let's Have a Look at this Special Offer!
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10223574488337767">August 14, 2021</a></b>
<br />A Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party!
<br />Click for some darling videos: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cathleen.amalia/posts/10225956325878184">Caterpillar</a> & <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10222856597790952">Dada</a><br />
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<br /><b>August 24, 2021</b>
<br /> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10223417972704974">“Currently reading about the price of Bitcoin.”</a>
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<br /><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/10223073951824667">October 23, 2021</a></b>
<br /><a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2010/09/childhood-autumn.html">Reading Eloise Wilkin</a>
<br><a href="http://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2021/05/brown-furniture.html">In her little rocking chair</a>
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<br /><b>December 17, 2021</b>
<br />Christmas Classics
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<br /><b>March 13, 2022</b>
<br />Sesame Street: Don't Forget the Oatmeal!
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<br /><b>March 15, 2022
<br />~ <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2022/03/ellie-reading.html">Ellie Reading and Rearranging</a> ~ </b>
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<br><br>See more:
<br>Summer 2022<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2022/07/such-goings-on.html">Ellie Reading to Aidan</b></a></center>Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634695288785654143.post-21608703121548335762022-02-28T23:44:00.067-05:002022-06-16T23:41:09.086-04:00Reading Charm<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuMfX9bOthIXQ8rxcj2yvWVlbgy7zCwS4KMj_9unffFZlA4ZigzRwho5R6MMRsC6g1np_0Iw1cbMmneQpHicF_omfBLFvyXUv_KItuCpGkPK41Ez2h-JO02C_8JjYtmQ-SDfl7n4JA375W4YNGvaT15Q7Pqz9gBt_u3SRStPxZmT9lTX0Aq_rhCISqGg=s3144" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="3144" data-original-width="2360" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuMfX9bOthIXQ8rxcj2yvWVlbgy7zCwS4KMj_9unffFZlA4ZigzRwho5R6MMRsC6g1np_0Iw1cbMmneQpHicF_omfBLFvyXUv_KItuCpGkPK41Ez2h-JO02C_8JjYtmQ-SDfl7n4JA375W4YNGvaT15Q7Pqz9gBt_u3SRStPxZmT9lTX0Aq_rhCISqGg=w379-h506" width="379" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10224272027455809&set=a.10206997182235475"><b>My Favorite Earring</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<blockquote><i>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/kitti.carriker/posts/335714798725325:5">What an astonishing thing a book is.</a> It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. . . .
<br><br>"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."</i>
<br><br>by Visionary American Scientist, <a href="https://carlsagan.com/">Carl Sagan</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan">1934 - 96</a>)
<br>from his book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345539435/ref=sr_1_2?crid=V1J5U1UKVWWA&keywords=sagan+cosmos&qid=1646249611&s=books&sprefix=sagan+cosmos%2Cstripbooks%2C62&sr=1-2">Cosmos</a></i>
<br>in Chapter 11: "The Persistence of Memory," pp 295, 297</blockquote>
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<br><br>See also
<br> <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2017/04/suggestions-for-sam.html">Neil Gaiman</a> & <a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2020/01/tolstoy-imagined-you.html">George Saunders</a>
<br><br>And of <i>course</i>,
<br><a href="https://kittislist.blogspot.com/2009/09/emily-from-different-angles.html">Emily Dickinson</a></b>:
<br><br>There is no frigate
<br>like a book
<br>To take us lands away,
<br>Nor any <a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/2010/01/blue-moon.html">coursers</a>
<br>like a page
<br>Of prancing poetry.
<br>This traverse may
<br>the poorest take
<br>Without oppress of toll;
<br>How frugal is the chariot
<br>That bears a human soul!
<br><br><a href="https://dailykitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=Emily+Dickinson&max-results=20&by-date=true">Emily Dickinson</a>
<br><a href="https://kitticarriker.blogspot.com/search?q=emily+dickinson&max-results=20&by-date=true">American Poet</a>
<br>1830 - 1886</center> Kitti Carrikerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02673202543914324582noreply@blogger.com0