Sarah and word puzzles
My name is Sarah. It’s not really a book. It’s crossword puzzles. We are in high tech. Software. Engineers. I like it. He wants out.
“The New York Times Strictly Medium Crossword Puzzles Volume 1: 200 Medium Puzzles”
Edible, non-edible words
Off bench on a blanket in the grass.
Hey, can I ask what you are reading?
“Anthony Bourdain.” She barely looks up.
Does it make you hungry?
“Small bites.” She does not take her eyes off the page.
The edible non-edible book. Haven’t we all lived there? Words and sentences composed and offered up as small bites.
“Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain
Mothers
Gently rocking the baby and reading at the same time. I am not her mother. I am her godmother.
Though I live in Denmark, my family is from Greenland. My grandparents now stay in Denmark. They are afraid to go home.
What is your book? “Mother Mary Comes to Me”. It’s her autobiography. Arundhati [Roy]’s mother is very strict, not kind at all.
I make films, some fiction, some political. Are you coming to the demonstration?
Oh, yes. I will take the baby home and come back.
Rocking the baby. Reading.
“Mother Mary Comes to Me,” a memoir, Arundhati Roy
Performing all over the world
“Flashout?” A novel? It’s about this woman in this outrageous traveling theater. They perform all over the world. They like to shock.
There is one place, not even with a stage where in front of everyone she strips down completely.
I like to read in the park while my wife and 4-year-old go to a theater class.
What do you do for a living?
I am an editor for CBS news.
New owners, new money, odd politics, that must be precarious.
I have been at CBS for 25 years; it is always precarious.
Good luck to you! Like many, I hope you will still be able to tell us something that resembles the truth.
I am not going to tell you where to place any bets.
Enjoy your book.
“Flashout,” A novel by Alexis Soloski
Are we living in a world of walls?
It’s called “The Wall.” A woman, a hunter, is to join other hunters in the Austrian mountains. She cannot find them. In the morning, she wakes up to find herself in front of a wall. No matter which way she moves, she is blocked. She cannot find or make contact with anyone. Stuck on the mountain in front of this wall, she will have to figure her way out on her own. That’s as far as I have gotten.
Sounds mind-boggling. Do you ever have that same sense about [President Donald] Trump? That he keeps dropping walls between us and everything else? There is absolutely no way anyone can get through to him.
That’s right. We’re all hunters, over and over again, hitting against that wall.
Unless from the Devil himself, where did he get that kind of power?
“The Wall,” a novel by Marlen Haushofer
Finding balance
Most of the books I read are written with a psychological lens. The content is most often about ways to become balanced, focused and present. That’s what interests me.
“So Old, So Young,” by Grant Ginder