currently reading:

The Gate at the Stairs — Lorrie Moore

favorite/influential books:

For the Time Being — Annie Dillard (nonfiction)

Beauty of the Husband — Anne Carson (novel/poetry)

The Woman Who Died in her Sleep — Linda Gregerson (poetry)

Paris to the Moon — Adam Gopnik (nonfiction)

The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy (fiction)

Atlantis — Mark Doty (poetry)

The Art of the Lathe — B.H. Fairchild (poetry)

shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed opportunities — olena kalytiak davis (poetry)

Random Family — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (nonfiction)

read in 2009

(note: I’ve decided belatedly to list them chronologically instead of by category)

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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding — La Leche League

The Attachment Parenting Book — William Sears

The Baby Book — William Sears

Teaching a Stone to Talk — Annie Dillard (creative nonfiction)

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders — Lawrence Weschler (creative nonfiction)

Nature and the Human Soul – (nonfiction)

The Natural Pregnancy Book — Aviva Jill Romm (nonfiction)

seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees — Lawrence Weschler (nonfiction)

The Craftsman — Richard Sennett (nonfiction)

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name — Vendela Vida (fiction)

The Dogs of Babel – Carolyn Parkhurst (fiction)

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nonfiction

The Daily Coyote — Shreve Stockton

Out of Egypt — Andre Aciman

Bad Mother — Ayelet Waldman

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle — Barbara Kingsolver

fiction

Runaway — Alice Munro

Unaccustomed Earth — Jhumpa Lahiri

The Welsch Girl — Peter Ho Davies

Equal Love — Peter Ho Davies

The Inheritance of Loss — Kiran Desai

poetry

Elegy — Mary Jo Bang

(note on poetry: it’s difficult for me to write what poetry I’ve read because I keep re-reading books I’ve already read or reading poems online or in journals.)

house

Ask a Midwife – Catherine Parker-Littler

Nourishing Traditions – Sally Fallon

Healing with Whole Foods – Paul Pitchford

The Art of Simple Food — Alice Waters

Healing our Children — Rumiel Nagel