Why we kneel how we rise - Michael Holding - written with so much grace and dignity, even when writing about how human beings can really be horrible to one another. Has some very illuminating interviews with other celebrities and their experience of racism.
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Nothing was the same
Nothing was the same - a memoir by Kay Redfield Jamison - a very moving memoir of how marriage to an absolutely wonderful man helped the author battle and overcome her manic depression. A beautiful description of grief and how one learns to live with it. Definitely a book to keep going back to. More than anything, it is an amazing love story
Accabadora
Accabadora by Michela Miguela - found this on Ellena Ferrante's selection of favourite books by women - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/21/elena-ferrante-names-her-40-favourite-books-by-female-authors?utm_source=pocket_mylist - its a lovely story of the love between an elderly caretaker for the dying and a young girl who is left in her care. The young girl grows up learning to understand and accept choices made by Bonaria.
Travelling with pomegranates Sue Monk Kidd
Ann Kidd Taylor and Sue Monk Kidd
Travelling with pomegranates is very readable, with alternate chapters written by the mother and the daughter. very interesting to see the 2 very different perspectives to the same event/s. They travel through Greece, Italy and Spain during an important phase in their lives, and the descriptions of the places they visit are very vivid.
An interesting takeaway is that the apple in the Garden of Eden could have actually been a pomegranate, as that was a fruit available even in those times in the Middle East, where the birth of Christ and Christianity is said to have occurred. . It is also considered a fertility symbol
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