You don't need a reason to do what you do for love.
But mostly, when I look back, what I remember is not Mom rushing about; it’s Mom sitting quietly in the center of the house, in the living room, under the swirling colors of a Paul Jenkins painting; t...
Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to the Art of Reading. Lin writes that, the man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in hi...
Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, a young writer originally from Boston who was now living and teaching in New York. Man Gone Down is another big, ambitious novel—about race, the American Dream, father...
Mom agreed but pointed out that she’d been doing the same with others too—talking about books with my sister and brother and some of her friends. I guess we’re all in it together, she said. And I coul...
MOM LIKED THE Ritalin. And she found it had a terrific and unexpected side effect—it helped her read. The day she first tried it, she was tired and uncomfortable and having trouble concentrating. She...
That’s the point, Will. You can’t control the beatings. But maybe you can have some control over your happiness.
Mom’s reaction to this chaos isn’t a surprise. No matter how high the bill that she is paying or that Medicare is paying for her, she will say to me or herself: What happens to all the people who can’...
I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.
And I’m also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.
Was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.
Not. Both Mom and I had read it when it came out in 1999 and had recommended it to each other simultaneously. In
I do believe that my Holy Grail of books could be out there—and I intend to keep reading until I find it. Of course, I'll keep reading after I do, too, because—well, because I love to read. I also bel...
It's not that I liked lunacy for the sake of lunacy, but if a writer can truly surprise me without throwing logic completely out the window, then that writer has me for good. Most book surprises aren'...
Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!
I read to live. I read for life.
Not feeling well is no excuse for forgetting that there are other people in the world.
If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family memb...
The Painted Veil
No one in the family has ever really gotten over Bob’s death. We talk of him daily, recounting stories and imagining what his reactions would be to new books and recent events. He remains for my famil...
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