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When I was a kid, I took ballet and tap lessons and I've always loved dance. Like most young girls, I was a huge ballet fan, an obsession that lasted well into my 30's, even though I realized I was never going to be a prima ballerina with my body (besides, it's really bad for your feet. Then I saw Mark Morris's dance company, which features a dancer who looks a lot like m. Sorta like the teacher in Edge City:
Kathleen Norris: The Cloister Walk
Why didn't I read this when it first came out? It's a beautiful meditation on not just monastic spirituality, but what that brings to everyday spirituality. (*****)
Sylvia Plath: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Even as a teenager, her prose and perceptions are astonishing. (*****)
Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Quirky, funny, maddening, life-affirming, brutally honest, insightful, self-indulgent, clear-eyed--like every human, full of contradictions and wonderful lessons. (*****)
Jonathan D. Spence: Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
Entrancing and poetic study of everday life of the landed civil servants/scholars class at the fall of the Ming Dynasty. (*****)
Alan Weisman: The World Without Us
No, the rats and cockroaches wouldn't win. (*****)
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