Last week was a perfect week at the beach at Topsail Island, bright and warm, with books and beer and shrimp all in the appropriate measure.<\/p>\n
The books I read:<\/p>\n
Perry is a wonderful author. This is a collection of essays that was a delight to read. You can’t go wrong with any of his books.<\/p>\n
A good and approachable explanation of what caused the financial crisis of 2008-2009. If you don’t hate Wall Street and want to run off and join the Occupy movement now, you will after reading this book.<\/p>\n
It will make you think a lot about what makes you happy. Although I didn’t think her frenetic rush from activity to activity was the way to find happiness.<\/p>\n
Cormac McCarthy is such an amazing writer that I regret all the years I’ve spent not reading his books. The Road about as grim a story as you can imagine, yet I came away from it feeling uplifted and hopeful.<\/p>\n
A children’s book about a hawk that gets shot by an arrow from a poacher and eventually is rehabbed and released to the wild. Lola is my cousin and I’d never read any of her books. Being family I wasn’t surprised to find it was just excellent. Creating a children’s story about a hawk getting speared with an arrow seems like a difficult task. But the book was unflinchingly, but not preachy, and not too harsh for children.<\/p>\n
Short stories about Berry’s fictional town of Port William. Maybe life was never that way, but I wish it had been or could be.<\/p>\n