Member jbealy

Real Name

Joanne Bealy

About My Library

Cicero said if you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. I have both. And love. I have everything I need.

About Me

Coffee drinking, book loving, music listening gardener, writer, photographer.

Location

Halifax, NS, Canada

Homepage

http://jbealy.wordpress.com

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

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Currently Reading

Gratitude by Oliver Sacks

The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way by Alice Walker

The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder

Fast: Poems by Jorie Graham

Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbé

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett

The Years by Annie Ernaux

The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan

Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes

Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration (In the Moment) by Maya Blackwell

The filling station by Leesa Dean

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

No Meeting Without Body by Annick Macaskill

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Favorite Authors

Joseph Boyden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Chrystos, Lynn Freed, Lawrence Hill, Doris Lessing, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Michael Ondaatje, Ann Patchett, Anne Sexton, Tennessee Williams

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Bookmark II, Dust Jacket Books and Treasures, Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia

Libraries: Central branch (Halifax Public Libraries)

Other: Word on the Street Halifax, Halifax Writer's Festival

Member Connections

Friends

abealy, BettcherForrest, Book2Dragon, Dayna.B

Interesting Library

abealy, amberalicia, avisannschild, EarlyReviewers, Flaubie, laVermeer, rmharris