Finished reading: Elevation by Stephen King 📚
Books
Finished reading: Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan by John Stevens. Though never really finished reading, just looping back to pick it up again. 📚
Walking around Chinatown in Honolulu yesterday before lunch, I came across this copy of The Hobbit translated into Hawaiian. 📚
Finished reading: English Pastoral by James Rebanks. What a beautiful and important book, born from love. 📚
Occasionally something pulls me to reach for a book that I have not opened for a number of years. A couple of days ago that book was Dewdrops On A Lotus Leaf, Zen Poems of Ryokan. I feel like I am revisiting an old friend, and asking, “Why was I not in touch earlier?” 📚
Finished reading: Walkabout by James Vance Marshall. I saw the movie many years ago, but never read the book until I found a copy on my parent’s bookshelves. 📚
Saturday, September 11, 2021 →
Finished reading: Billy Summers by Stephen King. My first Stephen King book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 📚
Finished reading: Manazuru by Hiromi Kawakami📚
I’ve just started reading: A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 📚
I’m about to start re-reading: Faith by Sharon Salzberg. I found it an inspiring read a couple of years back, and want to revisit it. It will be vying for my attention alongside Leonard and Hungry Paul 📚
Saturday, September 26, 2020 →
Currently reading: LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL by Ronan Hession 📚
Finished reading: Sweet Bean Paste by Dorian Sukegawa , 1962- (author.) 📚
Currently reading: Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa 📚
Finished reading: Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Yoshimoto Banana 📚
Currently reading: The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook by Elaine N. Aron Ph.d. 📚
Currently reading: Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Yoshimoto Banana 📚
Currently reading: Dare to lead by Brené Brown 📚
Finished reading: Advice on Dying by 14th Dalai Lama 📚
Finished reading: Kitchen by Yoshimoto Banana 📚
Currently reading: Advice on Dying, And Living a Better Life by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 📚
Imagery
Monday, July 6, 2020
📚 I love coming across phrases in books that just jump out at me. One the books that I have on the go right now is Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto. I loved the imagery that Yoshimoto conjured up in this passage, Until only recently, the light that bathed the now - empty apartment had contained the smells of our life there. Oh, the treasure of books.
I have just finished reading The Briefcase by Hiromi Kawakami. A simple love story that I enjoyed. 📚
I’ve just finished reading Fog Island Mountains by Michelle Bailat-Jones. Set in Japan it is a story that deals with two storms. In one, a typhoon descends on a small town, and in the other a family confronts the terminal illness of a dear one. A loved it. 📚
I have just finished reading Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna. A wonderful and inspiring read, fed even more by Colonna’s sharing of his own vulnerability. 📚
The Highly Sensitive Man by Tom Falkenstein has been published in English and dropped onto my Kindle last night. It has come with high praise. I’m looking forward very much to reading this. 📚
I just pre-ordered The Highly Sensitive Man: Finding Strength in Sensitivity. It’s due out at the end of August. 📚
Reading Finding Freedom: Writings from Death Row by Jarvis Jay Masters 📚
Reading Crow and Weasel by Barry Lopez, Illustrations by Tom Pohrt 📚
Reading A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas with woodcuts by Ellen Raskin.
My father’s side of the family is from Wales and I lived there for almost 20 years. Those hills, valleys and coastline hold a special place in my heart.
Merry Christmas. 📚
Just started Solitude a Return to the Self 📚