I read to live. I read for life.
I asked: And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you? Of course not—I’d read it first.
You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don’t think I’ll ever get over Melanie’s death in Gone With the Wind. But I’m still so glad I got to know her.
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.
The Bite of the Mango,
It’s three hours, and I know I probably won’t feel up for it, but if I’m going to feel rotten, I’d rather feel rotten watching something wonderful than just sitting in the living room, looking at the...
I like books. I don't read them. But I like them.
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, which had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005,
You don't need a reason to do what you do for love.
The new Brooks novel is called People of the Book,
One of Mom's favorite passages from Gilead was: This is an important thing, which I have told many people, and which my father told me, and which his father told him. When you encounter another person...
Kabat-Zinn writes, You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
John Irving reading A Prayer for Owen Meany,
It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools...
In December 2008, I had the book with me while we waited for Dr. O'Reilly. Mom had already finished it. Every time I put the book down to go grab some mocha, or check my email, or make a call, I retur...
We’ve reached a point in American history when death has become almost the last obscenity. Have you noticed how many of us refuse to say ‘he or she died’? We’re far more likely to say ‘she passed away...
The Uncommon Reader,
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch,
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in state of categorical unbelief. He says, I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. I pointed this...
Kabat-Zinn writes, You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. OBAMA