Best Author Interview(s) of the Week: Powell’s Bookstore in Portland is one of the best independent stores in the country. It’s web-site is superior to Amazon’s (though it’s discounts aren’t), because, among its many features are innumerable author interviews! I recommend you start with Michael Ondaatje’s, author of the Booker-winning The English Patient (if you’ve seen the movie you haven’t read the book), the incredible In the Skin of a Lion and the new, but much-less-satisfying Divisadero.
Currently Reading: Defeating the Spirit of Jezebel by John Arcovio. Spiritual warfare is an area I’m woefully weak in, and this book, while disorganized, is laden with invaluable nuggets.
Just Finished: Nebuchadnezzar: Scourge of Zion (7/31) by Mark Healy; The Atlantic Monthly’s Summer Fiction issue.
Fun Idea: Track the books you read each year by write down the title, date you finished and the author. (Tip of the hat: The seed of the idea came from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.) After 11 years of making an annual list, I can report that it makes for a fun, informal journal of your life.
And I thank you for your kind attention.
Labels: Atlantic Monthly, Interviews, Ondaatje
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2 Comments:
I'm tracking the books I read by using goodreads.com. It has a place for stars, a review, the month & year (best guess) you read it, and ways for your friends to comment. I love it.
OOh, Alison thanks for putting that website up, I'm definitely going to have to check it out. I like looking back and trying to remember everything I've read, but it'd be so much easier if I just tracked them like this!
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