[intentions in square brackets – remove brackets once read]
ADULT FICTION
Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag ~ Rohinton Mistry
The Library of Unfinished Business ~ Patricia Bell
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
I suspect this will be my favourite book of the year, even though I also really enjoyed Tuesdays with Morrie. As soon as I had finished, I wanted to read it again. Is it the perfect novella?
HEALTH
Just Eat It ~ Laura Thomas
How to Just Eat It ~ Laura Thomas
Intuitive Eating ~ Evelyn Tribole
Train Happy ~ Tally Rye
The Perfect Loaf ~ Maurizio Leo
Homegrown Kitchen ~ Nicola Galloway
100 Hikes of a Lifetime ~ Kate Siber
The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days ~ Kate Bowler
Bite Back ~Genevieve Mora
Her story…strategies for recovery and support…16 other stories
WRITING/READING
[…] list in brown writing book – notes taken from each of these books in Writing Folder
Write ~ Sarah Quigley
too much busywork
Writing Down the Bones ~ Natalie Goldberg
excellent – lots of notes
The Memoir Project ~ Marion Roach Smith
more ntoes
How to Write Your Life Story ~ Ralph Fletcher
good for kids
Writing Your Family History ~ Joan Rosier-Jones
nabbed lists of questions
The Memoir Book ~ Patti Miller
even more notes to reread
Letters To Children ~ C.S. Lewis
Praying with Jane Eyre ~ Vanessa Zoltan
Reading as a spiritual practice….took notes on the practices
PSYCHOLOGY/RELATIONSHIPS
[Atlas of the Heart]
[Created for Connection]
[The Emotion Code]
[The Gift of Being Yourself]
[Enneagram something]
[Strengths something]
[Getting to Yes]
[The Thinking Hats]
[The Body Keeps the Score]
[The Wisdom of Your Body]
ART
[…] list in black art book
Landscape Sketching in Pen and Ink ~ Donald Maxwell
The Act of Sewing ~ Sonja Philips
(AUTO-)BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Where the Past Begins ~ Amy Tan
The Predatory Lies of Anorexia ~ Abby D. Kelly
long struggle – role of Christian faith
Brother do you love me? ~ Manni Coe and Reuben Coe
Onward, Backward! ~ Bennett Voyles
personal family’s story of camino – history interwoven
A Furnace Full of God ~ Rebekah Scott
Where the Light Fell ~ Philip Yancy
Where Wine Flows Like Water ~ John McAneney
Memoir in Two Voices ~ Francois Mitterand & Elie Wiesel
Moments of Glad Grace ~ Alison Wearing
With God in Russia ~ Walter J. Czisek
Unreliable Memoirs ~ Clive James
How to Murder Your Life ~ Cat Marnell
as disturbing as the title suggests – there is no happy ending
Knots in My Yo-yo String ~ Jerry Spinelli
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ~ Maya Angelou
When the Heart Waits ~Sue Monk Kidd (spiritual direction and personal story)
Looking Back ~ Lois Lowry
Long Ago When I Was Young ~ E. Newsit
Women Holding Things ~ Maira Calman
mixed feelings about this one – loved pictures for adults, loved the almost Patagonia-esque script, loved the universal found in the personal…..but something about it didn’t quite work for me
I am a girl from Africa: a memoir ~ Elizabeth Nayamayaro
important story to hear
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies ~ Deesha Philyaw
Could replace the word secret with sex
WALKING One Step at a Time ~ Erling Kagge
small book of random reflections about walking – much to agree with
SILENCE ~ Erling Kagge
a few gems in this little book, but I didn’t copy them down
DO/WALK/ Navigate earth, mind and body. Step by step. ~ Libby DeLana
argument for walking Every Single Day
Two Million* Steps A Memoir ~ DeBar Southard
Useful for Mozarabe planning. A few passages of repetition that an editor would have fixed. After the first chapter I almost didn’t continue because I recognised he was using a similar structure to what I am thinking of – weaving other ideas in the actual journey. But I read on; his story is different to mine. I can’t not read something just because it might contain an idea I’m thinking of using!
Birds Art Life ~ Kyo Maclear
A year of birdwatching with some research about birding mixed in with observations about life as an artist and life in general.
Falling Off the Map ~ Pico Iyer
this one grew on me – astute observations and research of the places and a great thread to hold them together – will read more of his work
The Light of the World
a poet writes prose * grief and love declared powerfully * a good book to read to consider what love is
I Am I Am I Am ~ Maggie O’Farrell
How can one person have so many near death experiences? They punctuated her life and provided the theme for the book. Writing-wise it was interesting….rather than chronologically listing off the experiences, she used them to raise questions that would later be answered. She also added the structure of choosing a different (the relevant one) body part for each chapter. Chapters were not of equal length and that’s ok (Permission for my own writing!)
Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed
LOL book is so much better than the movie – good example of weaving a story inside her hike
Walking with Sam ~ Andrew McCarthy
Father and 19-year-old son on Camino Frances. Finds some good universal themes, unlike many camino accounts. Still suffers from the American this-is-a-wild-and-dangerous-thing disease. Never mind. Well written.
Tuesdays with Morrie ~ Mitch Albom
Every teacher should read this book. Every young person should read this book in their late teens/early twenties. And if, like me, they don’t find it until 54, read it then!
Beautifully written. Great structure.
Where the Feet Fall edited by Duncan Minshall
Twenty authors tell a story of a walk they have taken (some during Covid).
Quote from The Guardian Review by Hephzibah Anderson Sun 13 Mar 2022 16.00 GMT:
“Walking allows you to inhabit your imagination entirely”, Iyer notes. Likewise, reading about walking allows you to inhabit the writer’s imagination just as fully – surely the ultimate armchair travel.
You Could Make This Place Beautiful ~ Maggie Smith
A betrayed woman digs into her divorce. Moving. Vulnerable. Honest.
JUVENILE FICTION
Don’t You Know There’s a War On? ~ James Stevenson
picture book, and even though it is told from the perspective of a young child (and sympathetically) the content makes it more suitable for older children
The Relatives Came ~ Cynthia Rylant
good example of how a simple real life experience can be crafted into a retellable story
POETRY
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GARDEN
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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening Course
Koanga Garden Planner ~ Kay Baxter
EDUCATION/CHILD DEVELOPMENT/PARENTING
[notes in Morning pages 25 August 2022]
MISCELLANEOUS
Now Go Out There ~ Mary Karr
Address to college students at graduation
Wanderers ~ Kerri Andrews
A history of women walking and writing about it – has lef me to some new people to read – Nan Shepherd, Anais Nin, Ellen Wheeton…and the reminder to get to Virginia Woolf
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