I know this much is true
Stories we tell ourselves and those we leave behind.
Books and Entertainment
Book reviews, reading notes, reflections on books and writers, film, documentaries, and TV.
First book haul, October ’26
More books for my ever-growing pile of books to read, someday.
Rereading Crystal Phillips on Grief, Honesty, and the Page
Sometimes the first kindness we can offer ourselves is to stop asking our pain to disappear, and to tell the truth about it instead.
Letting Maya Go
What is true anywhere is true everywhere
Reading The Good People: Nance Roche reminds me of Tai Bou
She bound broken bones, helped women cursed with infertility, and tuva i mau or laid out cards for those seeking guidance.
Nance Roche quote from The Good People
How hidden the heart,… How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. – Hannah Kent, The Good People (page 100)
Underlined: Crystal Phillips
Crystal Phillips on writing, from her memoir, The Me I Knew I Could Be.
Payment In Blood – An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
Is Elizabeth George really the next Agatha Christie? My review of ‘Payment in Blood’ dives into the mystery soup of DI Lynley, DS Havers, and unnecessary clutter.
Updating my review strategy of Power Through Prayer by E. M. Bounds
Join me on this thematic journey through E. M. Bound’s first book on prayer
Prayerless preaching kills – Chapter 3 of Power Through Prayer
The preacher who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces