These Precious Days: Essays

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BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The Nashville author’s essay, These Precious Days, prompted a global outpouring of love, and her new book celebrates the wonder of ordinary life. I think one of the things I’ll take away from this is what a wonderful, warm hearted and generous person she is.

You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. I can do nothing about the world and the flames beyond leaving free masks in the fruit stand, but the part in which we are trapped is joy itself,” she reflects. She’s kind, hospitable and a loyal and true friend - in fact, at the end of reading this I want her to befriend me!When you close the book on the last page, you will feel like Ann Patchett is your friend because you will know that much about her. her stylistic elegance combined with the unhurried, calm pace of the book gave me such a peace of mind in a time of anxiety and worry. It could just be an astute observation or it could be a pithy little sentence that makes you go, "Yes!

Towards the end of her new essay collection, Ann Patchett describes being inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where a portrait of her now hangs alongside the likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos and Eudora Welty.The one fiction I liked of hers was State of Wonder but I didn’t read Commonwealth which apparently is Ann’s favorite. an expansion of her graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a collection of essays examining the theme of commitment, and These Precious Days, essays on home, family, friendship, and writing. Reading about her love of comics and books brought back memories of my own childhood, where I was perfectly happy in my own cocoon of fictional friends.

You know when people compliment an author by saying, "Oh, I would read their grocery list if they published it! The Last Thing He Told Me: In this captivating mystery, Hannah Hall receives a chilling note from her vanished husband, urging her to protect his estranged daughter, Bailey.The 336-page collection contains 24 essays, some previously published but revised for the collection. With her focus on love and marriage, and some sort of redemption however serious the subject matter, she is at odds in today’s climate of angsty millennial fiction. She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity.