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Book Pilgrim

Barbara Shoup

A place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.

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"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...

7 days ago
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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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13 days ago
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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...

a month ago
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The Things We Never Say

Recently, a friend emailed me a video link to Terry Tempest Williams talking about her mother’s journals, with a note: “I can’t get this clip out of my mind.”

Once I watched it, I couldn’t keep it out of my mind either.

The journals were...

a month ago
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John of John

Reading Douglas Stewart’s John of John made me think of Judith Guest’s Ordinary People, even though the books are nothing alike. John of John is set on a remote island off the coast Scotland; Ordinary People, in an upscale Chicago suburb....

3 months ago
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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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