What to read – Eileen P. Daly-Boas

Audio book suggestions?

Thanks to my housemate and her parents, I have a loaner iPod, and they’re letting me download books from Audible.com. I feel incredibly lucky that so many people have gone out of their way for me like this. So far, I’ve listened to “Eat, Pray, Love” (which I liked, even though I’m not sure IContinue reading “Audio book suggestions?”

Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks

I mentioned I like short stories. So, reading Cloudsplitter, (all 772 pages of historical fiction) is predictably, a bit much for me. It’s a great novel whose narrator is Owen Brown, a son of John Brown the abolitionist. I mostly picked it up hefted it because they lived in North Elba, NY for a while.Continue reading “Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks”

What I like: short stories

While I’ve been known to slog through long Russian novels, my favorite kind of reading lately has been short stories, or anthologies of essays. Perhaps my attention span is waning, but I think it’s because I am in awe of how an author can create a universe from nothing in only a few pages. AmyContinue reading “What I like: short stories”