Kurt at Cultural Offering has invited me to participate in a project listing my five favorite books. I am to list my five favorite books and nominate five bloggers to do the same.
Books provide a threshold or a launching pad, sometimes even an inspirational escape from sameness. A course plotted to an unknown destination, the reading culture offers rewards of the imagination, where nameless possibilities are realized, and the mind wanders, dreaming.
My list of favorite books (for now, right this second, in no particular order) are …
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West, Stephen E. Ambrose
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
The Shape of the Journey, Jim Harrison
Geoffrey Crayon’s Sketchbook, Washington Irving
I nominate Jess, Bryan, Jay, Randy, and you.
Rob, Five is too many/not enough! How about, Dalva, Jim Harrison, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, Faceless Killers, Henning Mankell, and If I Ran the Circus, Dr. Seuss.
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