Reviews
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“I was very glad, since I thought He meant I was to die soon, and the mere thought of this delighted me.” “The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” by Herself. Perhaps we can blame my Catholic upbringing, perhaps we can blame the course I took in college that landed this book in my hand,…
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“What I have taught and laid down, Ananda, as Doctrine (Dhamma) and Discipline (Vinaya), this will be your teacher when I am gone.” “What the Buddha Taught” by Walpola Rahula My first introduction to Buddhism was at college, where I decided to take it as one of my Philosophy & Religion credits and had no…
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“The experience left her with a certain haunted quality I very much admired. She’d looked into the face of something horrible, and I wanted to know what that felt like.” “Naked” by David Sedaris There are plenty of really stellar and poignant quotes from David Sedaris’s collection of episodic memoirs, Naked, that I like much…
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Today’s Round of Words in 80 Days check-in is going to be a little bit different from my usual ones. First of all, there will be no breaking down of goals (although, really, I only have two main goals this round, so that basically means I won’t be talking about one of them). Because today…
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“In a flash, only thirty years, the Mongol warriors would defeat every army, capture every fort, and bring down the walls of every city they encountered. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus would soon kneel before the dusty boots of illiterate young Mongol horsemen.” “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford…
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“…it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.” “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson When it comes time to return to working on Rosewood Manor, I know exactly what book will be coming off the shelves to reread to help inspire that great, brooding, heavy feeling…
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“‘Run away, child,’ answered her mother, ‘and catch the sunshine! It will soon be gone.’” “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Anyone who knows me particularly well knows I’m a huge Hawthorne fangirl. Some of his works are among my absolute favorites, I’ve visited his old haunts in New England and considered them the highlights…
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“She was practical. She knew how to walk down strange roads, now. She’d come this far. She didn’t have to cling to Dag like a drowning woman clutching the only branch in the torrent.” “The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy” by Lois McMaster Bujold While the second volume in Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Sharing Knife…
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“It feels to Michael as if his heart is being punched to death.” “Breed: A Novel” by Chase Novak Perhaps I expected a little too much. Maybe I should have reminded myself that I’ve only actually encountered a handful of Stephen King books that I enjoyed. But when I saw “The best horror novel I’ve…
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“…’But if you start down a road you can’t see the end of, there’s a chance you’ll find some dark things along it.’” “The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement” by Lois McMaster Bujold My delve into this series by one of newest writerly influences, Lois McMaster Bujold, lead me to realize one solid conclusion: I…
L.S. Engler 