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A non-fiction account.. An expectant mother has desperate premonitions of her own death during childbirth.. which actually come true. I think the '37 seconds' is the length of time she was clinically dead. (I haven't got to her death yet).
The first 45 pages have been an interesting recounting of how she tried to enlist help for what she believed was her impending death.
I'm never sure what to make of these accounts, especially reports of instantly going to Heaven, but.. I'm always willing to listen.
I’m reading The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck. The local color is a bit tough after several chapters, but the story is important and the characters are compelling.
With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Joe Lieberman, Ari D. Kahn
Since 2017 or 2018 (5777 or 5778) I have made a tradition of counting the Omer by reading a chapter a night of With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Joe Lieberman, Ari D. Kahn. The Omer is a 50 day period that starts with the second night of Passover, and concludes with a holiday of Shavuot. I was not even aware of this tradition until preparing for my wedding. My then-fiancé, now wife, would not marry during the first 33 days of this period of time, which concludes with Lag B’Omer. Lag B’Omer commemorates the death, at the hands of Roman troops, of a class of students studying with Rabbi Akiva.
Senator Joe Lieberman's premise is that with the liberation from bondage celebrated over Pesach comes a solemn responsibility to ordered liberty. Without order liberty becomes impossible and ends in tyranny. I bought this book at a mock trial held at NYC's Temple Emanu-el. The book is organized into fifty brief essays, corresponding to the days of the counting of the Omer, from the second day of Pesach to Shavouth. Most of these essays are gems in and of themselves. I just finished it for the fifth or sixth time, and every time reading it brings to light new gems.
When I first reviewed it for Goodreads I covenanted to pull the book out every spring, at least for a while, to re-read.
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Rereading Easy Going by Leon Hale and absolutely loving it. For such a time as this.
Hale was a humorist/local color columnist for the Houston Post. Casual, humorous observations of a country gentleman. This book is a compilation of his columns, and it's a delight.
Most of the book deals with cornbread and beans, or wandering on country highways, or the country general store, or his grandfather, or the art of telling a tale.
If you're interested in more urbane stuff, skip to Chapter 8, entitled Hey Hemingway for observations that don't deal with country living but are clever and funny.
I'm reading a quirky book on the History of Sugar! I love these kind of books. I've read History of Coal, History of Sand, History of Tobacco, History of Coffee, all very interesting.
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With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty-Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai by Joe Lieberman, Ari D. Kahn
