To blog or not to blog. That is the question. I can’t decide whether I should continue this very public form of self expression or just keep a journal. Maybe I should buy one of those old fashioned diaries with a lock and key. I had one when I was around 10 and every entry began “Dear Dairy” as I realized when I reread it later on.
I feel like I have entered a new phase of widowhood. This is my life and I am dealing with it as best I can. Still shocked, still uncertain but not completely bewildered or overwhelmed.
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This is my life. You may be interested.
About Me
- Ellen home and away
- This is what my mother taught me: Be a passionate advocate for your family. Have strong opinions and don't be afraid to express them. Always be open to learning new things.
My Reading List
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth
- Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
- The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by R.J. Smith
- The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard
- When We Were Kennedys by Monica Wood
- The Last Worthless Evening by Andre Dubus
- Miss Fuller by April Bernard
- Smut by Allan Bennett
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradley
- The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde
- At Last by Edward St. Aubyn
- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- The Ambassadors by Henry James
- Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope and Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
- Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Light Years by James Salter
- The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
- Rome: a Cutlural, Visual and Personal History by Robert Hughes
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
- The Barbarian Nurseries by Hector Tobar
- Catherine the Great by Robert Massie
- Swamplandia! by Kerry Russel
- Burning the Days by James Salter
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer
- An Anatomy of Addiction, Sigmund Freud, William Halstead and the Miracle Drug Cocaine by Howard Markel
- A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley
- How to LIve or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
- Bullett Park by John Cheever
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
- The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
- Falconer by John Cheever
- Examined Lives by James Miller
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- Collected Stories by Saul Bellow
- A Widow's Story by Joyce Carol Oates
- Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobsen
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
- Letters of Saul Bellow
- To the End of the Land by David Grossman
- The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
- Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Our Kind of Traitor by John Le Carre
- The Death of an Adversary by Hans Keilson
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- My Father's Tears by John Updike
- Beware of PIty by Stefan Zweig
- Empire of LIberty: A history of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer
- My LIttle Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
- Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
- Continental Drift by Russell Banks
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
- The Amulet by Roberto Bolano
- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
- The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
- The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
- A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
- Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fullerton
- Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Blooom
- The Vertigo Years:Europe 1900-1914
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
- A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
- Half the Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl DuWunn
- The Women by T.C.Boyle
- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997, by Piers Brendon
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano
- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
- A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
- The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
- The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson
- A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic LIves of Ellen Terrym Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
- Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
- Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
- The White Rock:An Exploration of the Inca Heartland by Hugh Thomson
- The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Radical Visions and American Dreams by Richard Pells
- The Day of the Owl, The Wine Dark Sea, To Each His Own, all by Leonardo Sciascia
- Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Dreams of My Father by PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!!!
- The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
- Stanley, The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
- Excellent Cadavers by Alexander Stille
- The House on Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
- Garibaldi by Christopher Hibberd
- The Bin Ladens by Steve Coll
- Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwicke
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
- The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 by Rick Atkinson
- An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson
- Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
- Lush Life by Richard Price
- The Whisperers by Orlando Figes
- All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
3 comments:
I like the sound of this new phase. Either way, I will miss your voice and the tales of your wonderous ways.
XO
I, too, would miss your musings---your thoughts and feelings reveal and enlighten us along our and your path. You are a brilliant writer------perhaps the content will change but we do enjoy these little glimpses of your life. xo
I wholeheartedly agree with my mom. (toni) xo
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