ODE TO BOOKS

Once upon a time,

before amazon.com,

I went to libraries,

where I learned to love books.

 This blog is my Ode.

Oh, Shug and Celie

you taught me to

pick myself up again.

Thank you, Alice Walker

for making me love again

with a different eye.

Flannery, you made

me love Georgia folks

with all their misfit ways.

Your writing style and

character descriptions

are a joy to read.

Oh, Scott Peck, from you

I learned that life is difficult,

that love is an action.

It is love that makes life bearable.

I learned about grace

and the courage to take

the road less traveled.

Marsha Sinetar, your book gave me

 the perfect support

 when I left a corporate job

to live a different life.

Oh, Eugen Herrigel,

 you introduced me

to Eastern Religion,

 the beauty of Zen,

 the power of the mind

when focused and relaxed.

J.D. Salinger, I was introduced to you

through your Nine Stories

one of which,

A Perfect Day for Bananafish,

we staged in 1958

for Reader’s Theater

at UGA Drama Dept.

Holden Caulfield will

live in my heart.

Your writing style is one I admire.

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I must mention Thomas Hardy
whose naturalistic style
 first captured my interest
 in Return of the Native.
I've read all of his books.


I took more photos

made a little music video

entitled Ode to Books

Please take a look

and see the rest of the books!

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Ode to Books
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stay tuned. . .