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a book list
  

it's a great gift to find a great book
these are some of my favorites

  
  

Orsan Scott Card's

Magic Street

is magical

stunning

 

Toni Morrison's

Love

impressed me
fascinated

 

I found the first passage difficult to connect to and until the end didn't know why she would write so. In the end, though, it is a haunting story beautifully told
  

I think that

Ted Allan's

Willie the Squowse

deserves to be
listed with gems


 
 
   
  

Bruce Chatwin's

the Songlines

is an extrodinary book
and one of my favorite
pieces of literature

 
The songlines of the indiginous people of Australia, song in a meta-language shared by all 26 language groups, carry one from landmark to waterhole to landmark across the continent. When one goes "walkabout", one follows one's clan's songline through one or two langauge groups (tieing the contienent together).
  
  

Bernard Schlink's

The Reader

is a very worthwhile read

one of my mother's favorite books

 
  
   

Terry Patchatt's

The Amazing Maurice and
his Educated Rodents

delightful

 
   
   
  
  

Norman Allan

Incarnations

my first poetry "chapbook"
a slim volume
of some of my best poetry
(18 poems on 26 pages)
that I do believe is happy
in this fine company

 
  
  

 

 

 

 


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