chianti_cimex_reads rated Devotions: 5 stars
Devotions by Mary Oliver
"Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for …
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Montreal - looking for the catharsis that comes from reading finely crafted sentences, and to get in closer touch with a higher power of my understanding
"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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chianti_cimex_reads rated Walking: 3 stars
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and …
chianti_cimex_reads rated What they used to tell about: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Our Voice of Fire: 3 stars
Brandi Morin: Our Voice of Fire (2022, House of Anansi Press)
Our Voice of Fire by Brandi Morin
A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi Morin set to transform the narrative around Indigenous …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Late in The Day: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Dream work: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Myth, symbol and colonial encounter: 5 stars
Myth, symbol and colonial encounter by Jennifer Reid (Religions and beliefs series ; 4)
From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Notebook of a return to the native land: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Silent Rooms: 2 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Grendel: 4 stars
Grendel by John Gardner, John Gardner
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Things They Carried: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Orchard Keeper: 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: 4 stars
Ernest Hemingway: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1976, GRAFTON BOOKS)
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Sacred and the Profane: 3 stars
Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are …
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Poisonwood Bible: 3 stars
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist …