I am still trudging through the Shel Silverstien biography...with a stack of books I'm looking forward to starting. The only reason I keep reading it is because I don't know when he dies, or what the cause, and I've already invested this much time....Hopefully the car ride to the water park today will be my chance to finally finish it. I think I've mentioned why I'm not enjoying the book, but in case I haven't, there's two reasons:
1) It's not organized in any way that I can follow. Shel was a poet, a cartoonist, a songwriter, playwright....He was a Renaissance Man, they say. He could do it all. He had residences all over the country, Chicago, Nashville, New York, Martha's Vineyard, Sausalito, CA, and Key West FL. This book could be organized by the different mediums he worked in, different parts of the country, or perhaps chronologically, but no, it's just kind of all over the place. One chapter ends on page 145 talking about someone he knew in Key West in 1980 saying, "but first, Shel had to deal with the biggest tragedy of his life." When is this tragedy revealed? 14 pages later!! (and it occurred in 1982!) With no building up to it....She just didn't get around to writing about it until then.
2) This man who had it all and could do it all was really kind of a selfish pig, and I don't think I like him very much. He had hundreds of women, never stayed with anyone for more than a week or so, and would just get up and go wherever he wanted whenever he wanted. His friends never knew when he would turn up, or when he would leave. This was not in the day of cell phones.....
OK, so, I'm finishing this biography soon......
What are you reading right now? Anything good? I want to read something good!
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I finally finished "Eat Pray Love". I enjoyed her writing style, but we have very different ideas about spirituality. The book is well organized - 3 sections with equal numbers of chapters. The first is her trip to Italy which I enjoyed, the second section she spends meditating at an ashram in India (which I grew bored with - meditation as a subject is only interesting for so long...), and the third in Bali. It was good - but not great.
Oops- I am anonymous. Kris
"Eat Pray Love" is in my stack....I'm told I will enjoy Italy, but have been nervous about the rest of it. I also have, from Karen, "A Moveable Thirst" about wine country, and "Bitter is the New Black" just a fun read.....
I'm reading "Spiritual Formation in the Life of the Church" by Wheaton prof James Wilhoit, and "Glimpses of Heaven" by hospice nurse Trudy Harris. Though I don't read much fiction, I did just finish "My Name Is Russell Fink" by Michael Snyder.
Today you caught me reading this blog, Hallmark magazine, Girls in Pants:The Third Summer of the Sisterhood, The Starbucks Experience (for work) and enjoying slowly reading through Breathe by Keri Wyatt Kent.
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