Books

For a while after Wayne died--don't know how long, but it seems a long time--I couldn't read anything. Friends, family, acquaintances recommended books and some sent books for me. But I could not read them, especially those about grieving or coping with death.

I do read now, but I have reached a place where I can quit a book if I don't like it and not feel guilty. Well, almost.

Here's what I've read this summer.

Second Wind, Tom Plummer
The Lifted Veil, George Eliot
The Saint, Oliver Broudy
Understood Betsy, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life, Roger Rosenblatt
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life, Peter Robinson
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
A Companion to Your Study of the New Testament, Daniel Ludlow
Making Sense of the New Testament, Richard Holzapfel and Thomas Wayment
The New Testament Made Easier, two volumes, David Ridges
The New Testament

Books I Started and gave up on.
Hamlet's Blackberry, William Powers (coulda been and shoulda been a pamplet)
A Walk Across America, Peter Jenkins (failed to live up to the promise in the title)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (again, but I'll keep trying)

Books I'm in the middle of.
A Light in the Wilderness, M. Catherine Thomas
Being Wrong, Kathryn Schulz
Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (this one I'm sure to finish)