Member: nancycooks

Noticed you liked The Glass Castle, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my book since it's also about a dysfunctional family (and also a bit dark). I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm out of physical copies at the moment). Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 8:53 am (EST) on Aug 20, 2009

Earth

Let the day grow on you upward
through your feet,
the vegetal knuckles,

to your knees of stone,
until by evening you are a black tree;
feel, with evening,

the swifts thicken your hair,
the new moon rising out of your forehead,
and the moonlit veins of silver

running from your armpits
like rivulets under white leaves.
Sleep, as ants

cross over your eyelids.
You have never possessed anything
as deeply as this.

This is all you have owned
from the first outcry
through forever;

you can never be dispossessed.

~ Derek Walcott ~

posted by theoldman at 12:00 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2009

Hello Nancy -
I was touched to see that you wanted to be my friend - our taste in books is uncannily similar with one major exception - I too am Nancy, but I don't cook, don't like to cook and don't read books about cooking - I do, however love to eat! ( my sister and nieces are also on this site and when i saw a message from Nancycooks, I thought that they were teasing me!) I do look forward to reading your memoir -

You have some wonderful books listed - many of my favorites, so i'll be checking regularly to see what you've read - raising fences melted my heart when i read it -

a few fun facts - I lived in new orleans for many years right behind the french quarter - my roommate and i would go to paul prudhomme's restaurant, k-pauls, when it was unknown - for $5 a meal we went at least 3 nights a week as it was the best food by far in town - I stopped going when the prices quadrupled and the lines began to form....................... I now live in fort pierce, FL which is where Zora Neale Hurston lived until her death. Nearby is the cemetary where Alice Walker found Zora's unmarked grave and honored it with a beautiful headstone and marker - we just had the annual Zora Fest this weekend.

LT has become an addiction of mine - thanks for the heads up.

Nancy Julian (njinthesun)

posted by njinthesun at 6:37 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2009