Pop Quiz
In honor of Shakespeare's christening day, a pop quiz:
1) What's the substitute word?
2) What play is this quotation from?

O! for a Flee of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
« Know Yer Poets! | Main | If I Had a Hammer . . . »
In honor of Shakespeare's christening day, a pop quiz:
1) What's the substitute word?
2) What play is this quotation from?

O! for a Flee of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!

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. (*****)
Comments