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Last October, when Abdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature for Gravel Heart, I signed up at the library right away. What makes a book so special that it wins such a prize?  I wanted to read it. Salim, the main character, begins to tell his story when he is seven.  He describes the … Continue reading Skillful Writing

I don’t often read books about spirituality, but I do like novels with a bit of mysticism or overtones of myth, a little Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, the biography of the Buddha.   So, when I heard about Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward at a dinner party I was intrigued.  Rohr, who looks a bit like a … Continue reading Not as Different as They Seem