Vesuvius At Home: The Prayer that Neil Wrote

Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Prayer that Neil Wrote

When Tori was pregnant, she asked Neil to write her "a poem or a prayer or something", for her only child, her Finally Girl. And this is the beautiful thing that Neil wrote.

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HeatherMar 1, 2009, 1:05:00 PM
Now I want him to write poems for my children.
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Reading 2015

A few stories from A Manual For Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin, which I liked
A few pages of Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
On The Small Backs of Children, Lidia Yuknavitch
Also gave The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey the college try
Tried really hard with Everything I Never Told You, but no
About 1/3 of Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo
The Lover, Marguerite Duras
The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff
You by Caroline Kepnes
A little bit of The Young Elites by Marie Lu
A little bit of Villa Americana by Liza Klaussman
A little bit of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A little bit of Among The Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpoint
The Girls from Corona Del Mar, Rufi Thorpe, can't stop thinking about it
The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty, Vendela Vida
The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George
My Struggle, Book 2, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Spinster, Kate Bolick, quite fascinating
The Foretelling, Alice Hoffman
Missoula, Jon Krakauer, everyone should read this book
The Wild Oats Project, Robin Rinaldi
Astonish Me, Maggie Shipstead
This One Is Mine, Maria Semple
How Should A Person Be? Sheila Heti, best book in the world for me right now
Rick Steve's Paris 2014, yes I read it nearly cover to cover, highly recommended, Rick is quietly hilarious
Stuff Parisians Like, Olivier Magny, not recommended
Parisian Chic, Ines de la Fressange
See How Small, Scott Blackwood
The Sweet Life in Paris, David Lebovitz
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, meh
Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah
The Unspeakable, Megan Daum
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed