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Caveat: I won't write a review if I don't endorse a book. If you ask and I don't find it worthy, I will simply decline. I never disparage other authors' work in print.

Recommended reading:

1. E. C. Osondu's Alien Stories

2. Carolyn Wright's This Dream the World and Masquerade

3. Rachel Dickinson's American Dynasties

4. Michael Gorra's The Saddest Words

5. Natalie Diaz's poetry book Postcolonial Love Poem

6. Nehisi Coates' We Were Eight Years in Power

7. Otessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen

8. Nancy Dafoe's memoir Unstuck in Time

9. Dafoe's mystery Murder on Ponte Vecchio

10. Jacob Appel's short stories Scouting for the Reaper

11. Seth Rogoff's First, the Raven, A Preface

12. Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic, Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

13. Karen Pastorello's and Susan Goodier'sWomen Will Vote

14. Karen Foresti Hempson's Bean Pickers, American Immigrant Portraits

15. Azar Naisi's The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

16. Robert Hass' Summer Snow (new poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner)

More Recommendations:

1. Nobel Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk's A Strangeness in My Mind

2. Nathan Hill's novel The Nix.

3. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Read and re-read.

4. Frank Wilczek nonfiction A Beautiful Question

5. Northrup Frye's Fearful Symmetry

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"Nancy, I wept my way through your wonderful book. There were tears of overwhelming sadness at what this thief, dementia, has stolen from our moms and our families. Tears of forgiveness for myself and my sister for all our mistakes in dealing with our mother and this horrific disease. Tears of forgiveness for our mother for the way she treated us at times in her illness. Tears of forgiveness for words spoken from well meaning people. There was so much we didn't know and so much we knew and overlooked or explained away. New prescription eyeglasses found months later in the freezer, a burned microwave, scraped paint on her car, a run in with a Jaguar, uncontrolled anger and meanness, inability to understand instructions, medication found on the floor, confusion, etc. Thank you for writing Iceberg in Paradise. I found healing in my sadness while reading it. God give me the strength for what is yet to come from this illness.

Sincerely, Diane Irwin"

"Message: I just finished your book. My husband and I have been going thru the alzheimer's process with my mother....for a very long time - however, the last few months have been horrid. I just wanted to tell you how much I connected to your experiences...my book is tagged on probably half the pages in your book because it hit home. I read some of the excerpts to my husband and he responded....no wonder you loved the book! I have read so many books on this insidious disease and caregiving, etc - there is only a handful that were worth keeping....yours is one.

Thank you!!!!/Lynn Robinson"

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Author's BLOG on great reads by other authors, as well as my books.

Caveat: I won't write a review if I don't endorse a book. If you ask and I don't find it worthy, I will simply decline. I never disparage other authors' work in print.

Featured Posts

An Iceberg in Paradise

"You are the man with whom I share a wall"

Stories in which the Alien is the Native and the Native the Naïve

Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds and "Radical" Ways of Reading and Learning

Stepping Back in Time to Understand our Contemporary American Scene with Karen Foresti Hempson's

Metaphoric Threads Weaving Life’s Silk Kimono, A review of Amy L. George’s The Stopping Places

“A Strange, Fantastic Notion” A review of Seth Rogoff’s Thin Rising Vapors

First, the Creative Act

All Those Lilting Tongues, a work by Theresa Hamman

The Surprising Transformative Power of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen

“Only by Your Silence” A review of Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss

Sharing your stories and words:

Sincerely, Diane Irwin"

Thank you!!!!/Lynn Robinson"

"You are the man with whom I share a wall"

Stories in which the Alien is the Native and the Native the Naïve

Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds and "Radical" Ways of Reading and Learning

Stepping Back in Time to Understand our Contemporary American Scene with Karen Foresti Hempson's

Metaphoric Threads Weaving Life’s Silk Kimono, A review of Amy L. George’s The Stopping Places

“A Strange, Fantastic Notion” A review of Seth Rogoff’s Thin Rising Vapors

First, the Creative Act

All Those Lilting Tongues, a work by Theresa Hamman

The Surprising Transformative Power of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen

“Only by Your Silence” A review of Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss

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Author's BLOG on great reads by other authors, as well as my books. Caveat: I won't write a review if I don't endorse a book. If you ask and I don't find it worthy, I will simply decline. I never disparage other authors' work in print.

Featured Posts

An Iceberg in Paradise

"You are the man with whom I share a wall"

Stories in which the Alien is the Native and the Native the Naïve

Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds and "Radical" Ways of Reading and Learning

Stepping Back in Time to Understand our Contemporary American Scene with Karen Foresti Hempson's

Metaphoric Threads Weaving Life’s Silk Kimono, A review of Amy L. George’s The Stopping Places

“A Strange, Fantastic Notion” A review of Seth Rogoff’s Thin Rising Vapors

First, the Creative Act

All Those Lilting Tongues, a work by Theresa Hamman

The Surprising Transformative Power of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen

“Only by Your Silence” A review of Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss

Sharing your stories and words:

Sincerely, Diane Irwin"

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Thank you!!!!/Lynn Robinson"

"You are the man with whom I share a wall"

Stories in which the Alien is the Native and the Native the Naïve

Jennifer Ackerman's The Genius of Birds and "Radical" Ways of Reading and Learning

Stepping Back in Time to Understand our Contemporary American Scene with Karen Foresti Hempson's

Metaphoric Threads Weaving Life’s Silk Kimono, A review of Amy L. George’s The Stopping Places

“A Strange, Fantastic Notion” A review of Seth Rogoff’s Thin Rising Vapors

First, the Creative Act

All Those Lilting Tongues, a work by Theresa Hamman

The Surprising Transformative Power of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen

“Only by Your Silence” A review of Phoebe Nilsen’s Without a Kiss

Search By Tags

Follow Me

Author's BLOG on great reads by other authors, as well as my books.

Caveat: I won't write a review if I don't endorse a book. If you ask and I don't find it worthy, I will simply decline. I never disparage other authors' work in print.