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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Viapiano who wrote (1265)	5/7/1998 7:08:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4711

Paul, Your wife said that so beautifully!!!! Does she write?? It's exactly why I love Anne Tyler and why I loved Proulx's Shipping News and to a slightly lesser extent, Carol Shields' work. My favorite right now is Elizabeth Berg who writes little books that read like pure poetry. I also read a lot of poetry (lately, mostly the female writers of the 40s, 50s, 60s, who really changed the female 'vocabulary' and image--like Levertov, Plath, Moore, Rich...) I also read lots of junk mysteries (my favorites are Joan Hess and Sharon McCrumb, I think) I had trouble sticking with Eco-I admit it...I never read more than Name of the Rose. Usually there are several books being read at once here---hmm--on the nightstand right now are: The Oldest Dead White European Males-Reflections on the Classics (Bernard Knox), Cloud Chamber (prequel to Yellow Raft on Blue Water), and some really bad medical thriller. In the car is The Seasons of Women and in the kitchen is A History of Knowledge(Charles Van Doren). I was thinking about Wisam's excellent little essay. So many children don't seem to reach the proficiency level necessary to lose themselves in a book; they are still struggling with the mechanics too much to relax and let go. As in music, you have to practice and push yourself and it's so hard to convince kids that the results will be worth it. We read to ours from Day 1 until they entered high school, every night. (The last book we read together was To Kill a Mockingbird.) My children both read very early and one is now a genuine book addict, the other an excellent reader though he'ds rather be on the computer. The addict said to me a couple of months ago as he opened a new book and stuck his nose in it, "Nothing smells better than a book you haven't read."