Books I've recently read.

A Map To the Next World- Poems by Joy Harjo



Between A Rock And A Hard Place- Aron Ralston

Four Spirits- Sena Teter Nashland

Getting Mother’s Body- Suzan - Lori Parks

I Sailed With Magellan- Stuart Dybek

Love- Toni Morrison

Oryx And Crake- Margaret Atwood

O Pioneers!- Willa Cather

Power- Linda Hogan

Solar Storms- Linda Hogan

The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell- John Crawford

The Memory Of Running- Ron McLarty

The Most Wanted- Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Turtle Warrior- Mary Relindes

Of the above, my favorites are Ron McLarty's The Memory Of Running
And. Solar Storms by Linda Hogan

Sometimes there are moments when a person has to make a decision, as opposed to just letting things just happen. A person then has to happen himself. I have never done this. Life bounced off me, and bounced me, and now it was going to bounce me to death. —from The Memory of Running (p. 77)

Update- April 27. Just finished reading Fortunate Son. A novel by Walter Mosley

Update 2- May 2. And now I've read The Man In My Basement- Yet another Mosley novel. I'm realy liking Mosley's style, he's a good read. Thought provocative but easy on my brain.

The Man in My Basement: "When a stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to rent out his basement for the summer, Charles needs the money too badly to say no. He knows that the stranger must want something more than a basement view. Sure enough, he has a very particular—and bizarre—set of requirements, and Charles tries to satisfy him without getting lured into the strangeness. But he sees an opportunity to understand secrets of the white world, and his summer with a man in his basement turns into a journey into inconceivable worlds of power and manipulation, and unimagined realms of humanity."