If you want to hear some good stories read by some wonderful writers, come to the Blackbird Wine Shop on Wednesday, February 2nd at 7pm. Joanna Rose and Stevan Allred will be reading their work. It will be worth your time. And did I mention, it’s at a wine shop that also has cheese?
Archive for January, 2011
Come and Listen
Monday, January 31st, 2011A book to read and remember
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes is a book I can’t stop thinking about. Word is it took Mr. Marlantes 30 years to write it and, I’m telling you, it was worth every year. It’s at once a terrible and beautiful story, based much on his own experience as a Marine in the Vietnam war.
The author gives a powerful taste of the tedium, fear, anger, loss, connection, and confrontation with self and humanity that came to him during his early months in Vietnam. It is sometimes hard to read, but impossible to stop because it is that good.
I recommend this book because it is good writing, a powerful story, history revealed, and because, through out the reading, I thought constantly of my uncle, Jim Carlson, who died in Vietnam in 1968.
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