me since boyhood, and ending with some titles that are currently on my nightstand.
People are also reading… A local acquaintance with an affinity for the outdoors writes: “Emerson and Thoreau had a much greater influence on me than I ever realized. Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Cat’s Cradle’ and ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ are both full of truths. When I’m feeling witchy, ‘The Mists of Avalon’ by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and ‘The Witching Hour” by Anne Rice. I have a Goodreads list of favorites and each of them spoke to me at whatever stage of life I was in at the time.
A fellow I’ve known more than 40 years drops a couple of titles on me: “Return of the Native” by Thomas Hardy and “Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls. A friend from college echoed enthusiasm for ‘A Prayer for Owen Meany’ and reminded me of some other fond memories: “‘East of Eden’ by John Steinbeck and ‘Sophie’s Choice’ by William Styron, especially before everyone knew what the choice was. For nonfiction, Robert Massie’s ‘Nicholas and Alexandra’ is fantastic and is the book by which I measure all other nonfiction.”
Another woman, the sister of a high-school classmate, shares her own journey through the past: “I loved mysteries as a child and couldn’t get enough. I was in love with Trixie Belden and the hijinks those guys got into. I think the first ‘chapter’ or long book I read was ‘Lad, A Dog’ by Albert Payson Terhune. I’m retired and old, so I can reread books that seem brand new. I love books and dogs.”
“Then I read JAWS by Peter Benchley, and to this day I feel like fish food in the ocean. That book changed my life, in a terrifying way.”A fellow I’ve known forever it seems tossed out a remark with the gravity to launch a lengthy exploration of its own: “Any book you read where you’re seeing events through someone else’s viewpoint broadens you own ability to understand others,” he wrote. In fact, Erica Bauermeister wrote a novel along that theme, “No Two Persons.
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