tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post4075404778928629218..comments2024-03-28T16:31:23.093-07:00Comments on Books in Northport: More on Comfort BooksP. J. Grathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-15935668111567811102020-10-19T13:49:37.031-07:002020-10-19T13:49:37.031-07:00Valerie, hello and thank you so much for leaving a...Valerie, hello and thank you so much for leaving a comment here with additions to my starter list. The Ronald Blythe, a work unfamiliar to me, sounds lovely, as I know is true of the other items you suggest. Again, thank you, and be safe and healthy and as tranquil as possible in these changing times.P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-2202886396510124862020-10-19T11:39:05.900-07:002020-10-19T11:39:05.900-07:00Valerie Trueblood -
Thank you so much for your l...Valerie Trueblood - <br /><br />Thank you so much for your list!<br /><br />More books to read while getting used to our changed days:<br /><br />Akenfield by Ronald Blythe, a lovely book about the customs and crafts that sustained English villages for centuries. Makers of thatched roofs speak, and wheel-wrights, and bell ringers. A book about people putting skill, physical effort and love into a tranquil and dependable, though changing, community.<br /><br />The novels, poems and essays of Wendell Berry.<br /><br />Nature poems - John Clare, W.S. Merwin, Pattiann Rogers, Seamus Heaney.<br /><br />Czeslaw Milosz’s wonderful anthology A Book of Luminous Things.<br /><br />Earthly Paradise, by Colette.Valerie Truebloodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-7292087448586928092020-10-14T07:18:22.598-07:002020-10-14T07:18:22.598-07:00Kathy, thank you so much for your suggestions and ...Kathy, thank you so much for your suggestions and for leaving a comment here where everyone can see it! I know that you read a lot more than comforting, escape literature, too. Bring on those economics essays any time, and I'll dig in. Thanks again --P. J. Grathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12693462910472164289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4130421352415377273.post-39748946356990489892020-10-14T05:56:44.446-07:002020-10-14T05:56:44.446-07:00Ah, poetry. Linda Milliman, David Whyte, Mary Oliv...Ah, poetry. Linda Milliman, David Whyte, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Rumi, just to name a few. Thank you for this wonderful list of books and categories, Pamela!<br />Kathy Garthenoreply@blogger.com