- Patricia K offers a compelling review of Terry Tempest Williams’ latest book
- Suzie Petunia: Mormons, Yoga, Culture
- Teaching “Eternal Families” — another great post at Beginnings New (if you are a YW leader, bookmark it)
- BiV: When you sacrifice, obey despite yourself — and then the rules change
- Tracy: Reminds me of that great children’s book “Stone Soup”
- Susan: Sock phobias and other adventures in keeping your children clothed!
- M&M: Canneries, mistakes, mercy
- Claudia Bushman at Miller Eccles this weekend
- “LDS Church asks lawmakers to weigh morality, ethics in immigration reform”
- Check out this great photo-post on the “New Woman in Utah”! Here.
- Angela Hallstrom, author of Bound on Earth, interviewed at A Motley Vision. (I read the book — it’s superb). I used the following quote from the interview in my Contemporary Literature class this week:
I also became very interested in the idea of “staying” as a theme in serious literature. So much of the literature I was reading and critiquing in school had to do with leaving—especially when it came to relationships. And I understand why. Leaving is the archetypal launching pad for most good plots, whether it’s leaving the country to go to on an adventure or leaving your husband to take up with a younger man. But I knew there had to be a lot of great drama and conflict in the act of staying, too, because I saw all sorts of drama around me, and most of that drama had to do with the act of staying, of being committed, of pushing through darkness toward hope.
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I am very excited to explore the YW blog. We are really searching for new ways to enrich the spiritual lives of our girls. Thank you!
Deborah, thank you for the mention of my novel. I thanked you on the Segullah blog, but thought I’d do so here, too. Also, if any Exponent II readers who live in the SL/Provo area are interested in reading the book for their book club, I would be happy to come to book club meetings and answer questions or talk about the novel. You can contact me via my website, http://www.angelahallstrom.com. Thanks again, Deborah!
Now that I read that back, I hope it doesn’t come off like I’m trying to sell something here. I mainly wanted to let people know that I’m interested in book clubs. The book is available in the SL City and SL County library systems, and if every single person in the book club checks the book out, I’d still love to come to your book club!
You are very welcome.