NFRC: wildwood....Annie Dillard! "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"! I love her writing.

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marilynfl

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Reading her autobiography (An American Childhood) I was stunned to find out she lived a mere 20 miles from me in Sewickley, PA during her youth.

Somehow I never imagine authors as being "real" people.

Before we were dating, my husband heard her read poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. I had pictured her small and petite, but Lar says she's very tall (almost 6').

 
"An American Childhood" is one of my all-time favorite books. Loved Ms. Dillard's ...

description of lying awake in bed at night and observing the "light" moving around her bedroom. Also, how she remembers the smell of her mother's neck. What an incredible gift she has!

Debbie

Have you read any Barbara Kingsolver? "The Bean Trees" is fantastic. (Think I read "Childhood" and "Bean Trees" one right after the other several years ago and now relate the two.)

 
Loved "Prodigal Summer" and "Pigs in Heaven"

I think Bean Trees might be the book Pigs in Heaven is based on.

My favorite scene from her books is the one where a man is explaining about eating with very long chopsticks: how a greedy person can't reach his own mouth due to the length, but a generous person can reach across the table with his chopstick and feed someone else.

I've paraphrased it horribly, but that little paragraph has stayed with me FOREVER.

 
RE: B.Kingsolver... think it was the first couple pages in the "Poisonwood Bible" ....

that I felt was some of the finest writing I've ever read anywhere.

 
marilyn, you've prompted a much needed search through our bookshelves! i've found a few lost

treasures that i started and never finished (i'm really bad for that)...hurrah! discovered it's not pilgrim i have but tickets for a prayer wheel. i'll have to look for the other authors you guys mentioned, too. thanks!

 
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