A comment during an interview with author Mark Helprin turned my thinking to the books I’ve given most as gifts. Here they are.
Tag: The Paper Garden
The books I gave on Christmas Eve
Five books for five friends, specially selected, this holiday season.
How a life blooms: the signposts of destiny
Molly Peacock's "The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72" is more than a great biography about an 18th century woman. It's a meditation on late-bloomers and the significance of choices made throughout one's life. Molly Peacock is an award-winning poet, and her "leaps of the poet's mind" transport us into wonderful places, real and profound.
