I got to be the Book Brahmin for the March Shelf Awareness and here is what I shared: Book Brahmin: Mary Anne Radmacher photo: Michael Stadler Mary Anne Radmacher is a motivational speaker, artist and author; her newest book, written with Liz Kalloch, is She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman (Viva Editions). She lives with her husband near Seattle. Radmacher writes to inspire herself and in doing so, inspire others. She communicates that there is no failure, theres only practice, opening doors of possibility that readers push the rest of the way open. Her writing in an invitation to remember what brings us joy and to do what matters. On your nightstand now: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, edited by David Wagoner; The Echo Maker by Richard Powers; The Practice of Process Meditation by Ira Progoff; Designing with Type by James Craig; The Ayurveda Bible by Anne McIntyre; The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; Life Is a Verb by Patti Digh. Favorite book when you were a child: Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary ONeill; The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Your top five authors: Madeleine LEngle, Jane Kirkpatrick, John Irving, Paul Theroux and Eleanor Roosevelt. Book youve faked reading: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Book youre an evangelist for: ANY dictionary, vintage or new. Book youve bought for the cover: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. Book that changed your life: How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy by Hugh Prather. Favorite line from a book: I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice--not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mothers death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. --From A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Book you most want to read again for the first time: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Book you wish you had written: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:40:49 +0000
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