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Habitual Reader Profiles - Page 2
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Name: Cary Brown |
| State: Washington | |
| Vocation / Avocation: teacher/writer | |
| Website: www.carybrownmysteries.com |
Why I'm a Habitual Reader:
When I grew up enough that people began trying to tempt me by saying, "You only go around once," I would rise up out of whatever book I was lost in and say, "No. Readers go around thousands of times."
My List of Ten: Irish books that make me think
1. Esther Waters
Author: George Moore
Focuses on a woman independent enough to set her own goals.
2. Strumpet City
Author: James Plunkett
Shows how community can prevail even in a city.
3. Skin of Dreams
Author: Evelyn Conlon
Reveals our use of language to hide what we're doing from ourselves and each
other.
4. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Author: Sebastian Barry
Incorporates ancient Celtic belief into twentieth-century lives.
5. A Wild People
Author: Hugh Leonard
Shows how movies, fantasy, tradition and courtesy function as replacements
for "reality."
6. The Heather Blazing
Author: Colm Toibin
Emphasizes the way law doesn't fit emotional reality.
7. Give Them Stones
Author: Mary Beckett
Suggests that differences in ideas of courtesy and generosity-of-spirit matter
more than politics.
8. Circle of Friends
Author: Maeve Binchy
A coming-of-age novel in a mesh of cultural diversity.
9. Songdogs
Author: Colum McCann
Incorporates the idea that culture is portable and speculates about why that
matters.
10. The Family on Paradise Pier
Author: Dermot Bolger
Shows what happens to individual lives when an empire withdraws.
Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.
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