Tag: nature

• Book Review: Little Alleluias by Mary Oliver

  Reading Mary Oliver is sort of like feeling your heart pounding in your throat, threatening to break at any moment. I feel sadness at the very beauty of her words, and then I feel mad because I can’t replicate that same beauty with my own. I am trying very hard to be a writer. I…

  michardillo

  May 27, 2025

  books

  book-review, books, dog, essays, Grand Central Publishing, literature, Little Alleluias, Louise Miller, Mary Oliver, Natalie Diaz, nature, NetGalley, nonfiction, novel, poetry, prose, reading, writer, writing

• Book Review: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

  By Anthony Doerr (Published June 12, 2007 by Scribner Book Company) I realize I am late to joining the Anthony Doerr fan club, but I tore through this piece of nonfiction in less than two days. I probably would have finished it in one day had I not stopped so frequently to admire his wide…

  michardillo

  March 23, 2021

  books

  Four Seasons in Rome, France, Italy, nature, Peter Mayle, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Provence, Pulitzer Prize, Rome, twins