Book Pilgrim
Barbara ShoupA place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.
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A Lesson Before Dying
I decided to write about Ernest Gaines’ A Lesson Before Dying for Banned Books Week before news of last week’s brutal botched execution in Tennessee—which makes the book even important to read and think about.
I first read it in the early...
All the Water in the World
Reading The Catcher in the Rye as a teenager, I remember being struck by Holden Caulfield’s comment, “A truly great book makes you wish the author was a close friend you could call up on the phone whenever you wanted” –and thinking, yeah, t...
"After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned."
Definitively proving human beings’ capability for change, I used to be a not-dog person. I didn’t wish them ill. I just didn’t want one. The barking, the dog hair, the fact that you have to take them out for their bodily functions in the de...
Hotel du Lac
On vacation last week, I checked out the condo’s bookshelf and found the predictable collection of contemporary crime novels and bestsellers:
Along with this:
Holding the battered copy in my hands, I wondered who had left it here and—
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Five Weeks in the Country
Remember that great Saturday Night Live sketch in which John Belushi plays a guest who just won’t leave? At his slobby best, Belushi is oblivious to hints from his hosts Bill Murray and Jane Curtain—Murray’s yawns, Curtain’s screams. He shu...
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Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels and two books about writing. She is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center and a faculty member at Art Workshop International.
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