tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post8736539274957688358..comments2024-03-29T01:31:31.174-04:00Comments on The Storialist: Bookmarks List/Bedside TableHannah Stephensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-28404542770305984582013-07-27T15:12:03.380-04:002013-07-27T15:12:03.380-04:00Of course I'm not sorry I asked. Thanks for yo...Of course I'm not sorry I asked. Thanks for your ideas here! :)<br /><br />Ok, I adored Crapalachia, so completely. The language is beautiful and MOVES (hence me finishing it in one sitting). Lots of stuff happens, for sure....I admired the author's language so much (very natural, funny, observant, and surprising). The opposite of swamp-like.<br /><br />All good recommendations--thanks. Maggie Smith is wonderful (in real life and on the page) :). Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-62548964357131617202013-07-27T15:09:53.150-04:002013-07-27T15:09:53.150-04:00That nursing book sounds interesting, actually...That nursing book sounds interesting, actually...Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-80425561987519729332013-07-27T15:09:34.708-04:002013-07-27T15:09:34.708-04:00Ooh--good recommendations from you, too! Thanks!Ooh--good recommendations from you, too! Thanks!Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-39185343806479319972013-07-26T16:31:33.127-04:002013-07-26T16:31:33.127-04:00I saw another favorable review of Crapalachia--I&#...I saw another favorable review of Crapalachia--I'm guessing in the NY Times? So you didn't find the language burdensome, swamp-like? And a few things Happen? Maybe I'll try it--the area has always interested me.<br /><br />I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but blogging about Emerson and Thoreau made me more interested in their work than I was back in student days, and through their work, I'm now interested in their lives. We happened to poke around Melville's farm near Pittsfield, MA last fall, while visiting my daughter in CT, and the other day I found my long-forgotten bio of him by Andrew Delbanco. It's VERY readable. But first I want to stick with Emerson and Thoreau, probably scattershot as usual for me. And Hawthorne, who may or not have had a sexual relationship with Melville and had a catty word or two about Thoreau. I had not realized that they all hung out together, probably at Starbucks--Louisa May Alcott and her pappy too. Apparently there was at least some flirting going on--gotta find out who with whom. You know . . . you've seen one commune, you've seen 'em all . . . <br /><br />Sorry you asked? <br /><br />Also, I've been liking a few poems in journals and small volumes, more than I usually do. Maggie Smith (online) in your very own Columbus, Paisley Rekdal (online), Matt Rasmussen (Tupelo winner), Jamaal May (Kenyon and Ploughshares), and others I'm forgetting at the moment. I feel that I have forever been approaching the notion that Kenyon and Ploughshares are in a league of their own--which of course just means I like and respect them more consistently than I do others. <br /><br />Sorry you asked? I could go on . . . Or could I?<br />Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-1210896607495903312013-07-26T11:24:42.068-04:002013-07-26T11:24:42.068-04:00I'm reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamotte. And ...I'm reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamotte. And my nursing CEUs, A Review of Alternate Therapies.Anne Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01337168781594497655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-57011401026775745252013-07-26T10:01:02.844-04:002013-07-26T10:01:02.844-04:00Currently loving Dara Weir's You Good Thing fr...Currently loving Dara Weir's You Good Thing from Wave Poetry. And trying to finish Neil Gaiman's American Gods. Thanks for intro to crapalachia...sounds amazing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com