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Why, Yes, There Is A Book In My Purse ... Always.

Recent 5-Star Fiction Reads
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Trials of Apollo Series by Rick Riordan

Recent 5-Star Nonfiction Reads
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson
Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow by David Stenn
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Gentle and Lowly by Dane C. Ortlund
Humble Roots by Hannah Anderson
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church by Diane Langberg
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
What is a Girl Worth? by Rachael Denhollander
Working Days by John Steinbeck

All-Time Favorite Novels
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Likeness by Tana French
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Pathfinders series by Lori Benton
Philip Marlowe series by Raymond Chandler
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
The Virginian by Owen Wister
Watership Down by Richard Adams
What's Mine's Mine by George MacDonald
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
-David Quammen


​What Brings Me Back To An Author of Fiction
I love sensing the author knew the characters first, before the plot or the storyworld. I love sensing the author knows more about the characters than he's going to tell me in this book. I love deep point of view. I love realistic human dialogue. I love prose with a voice (I can't define "voice," but when I read a good one, I latch on with giddy loyalty). I love characters with individualizing details. I love being trusted to understand the themes with out the author's assistance. And (believe it or not) I love word economy.
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