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Drew’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Drew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Drew Myron
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Thankful Thursday: You
It’s Thankful Thursday, a weekly pause to express appreciation for people, places, things, and more.
Attention attracts gratitude, and gratitude expands joy, and joy leads to more appreciation. In this powerful loop, we look for small daily pleasures and our perspective shifts, and our attitude, too.
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The other day, I stumbled upon, “You, If No One Else,” and it felt like the poem had found
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The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
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2013
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5 editions
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Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease
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2009
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The Triumphant Spirit: Portraits & Stories of Holocaust Survivors...Their Messages of Hope & Compassion
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1997
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4 editions
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Thin Skin
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2013
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2021
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Moments of the Soul: Poems of Meditation and Mindfulness by Writers of Every Faith
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2010
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Sweet Grief: Paintings & Poems on Love and Loss
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2012
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Drew’s Recent Updates
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3.5 stars The pace is a (very) slow burn. The story is dubious but intriguing. But the writing is stellar — lyrical and atmospheric. |
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I don't even play tennis — and I loved this book! The Inner Game applies to sports and other endeavors, too: learning a language, writing, work life, relationships, and more. Written in the 1970s, this classic self-help book holds up across the years ...more |
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When I describe this book my summary doesn't do it justice: "It's about a young girl who can taste emotion in everything she eats," I say, astonished. Friends nod along but don't seem to share my enthusiasm for the concept. But the novel is more than ...more |
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“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.”
― Thin Skin
― Thin Skin
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.”
― Thin Skin
― Thin Skin
“Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.”
― Thin Skin
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.”
― Thin Skin
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“The situation is grave: the way we lean over each other, the way years later we emerge: hunchbacked, hooded, with full grown tender things called souls.”
― And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
― And Her Soul Out Of Nothing
