What’s On My Nightstand: January 2017

Adult Fiction

Swing Time, by Zadie Smith
The Small Backs of Children, by Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetry

Call Me By My True Names, by Thich Naht Hahn
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, by Joy Harjo
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB by Thomas Merton

Non-fiction

The Places That Scare You, by Pema Chödrön
Unnatural Selection, by Mara Hvistendahl
Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Break Every Rule, Carole Maso

Young Adult Fiction

The Thing About Jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin

 Children’s Picture Book

A Sick Day for Amos McGee, by Phillip and Erin Stead
Lon Po Po, by Ed Young

Magazine

The New Yorker
The Week

Newspaper

The New York Times

Bookmark

Shout Out Philly – Raising the volume on progressive activism in Philadelphia

Lip balm

HURRAW! black cherry lip balm

Bowl, palo santo wood

Patagonia, AZ

Stones

gift of Kelly Moreno

originalchildbomb_tmertonsignedcopy
“Original Child Bomb,” by Thomas Merton, c. 1961 (signed copy)

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