I had a few sleepless nights recently due to illness, and when that happens I sit up in the wee hours of the morning, wrapped in a cozy blanket on the living room sofa to do a little reading and take my mind off my physical discomfort. Nothing seemed to be quite what I wanted until I remembered The Art of Eating, a compilation of works by M.F.K. Fisher. I found it on the bookshelf and opened it up to The Gastronomical Me. I was immediately swept away into another time and another life and forgot all my own problems of the moment. Does anyone else out there read M.F.K. Fisher? She wrote about food and eating and travel in a style all her own.
January 2008
1. The Gastronomical Me, M.F.K. Fisher
2. The Mind of the Maker, Dorothy Sayers
3. An Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher
4. Prisoners of Hope, Dayna Curry & Heather Mercer
5. The Shack, William P. Young
6. Greene on Capri, Shirley Hazzard
February 2008
7. The Divine Hours (Prayers for Autumn and Winter), Phyllis Tickle
8. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, Kathleen Norris
9. Mrs. Heriot's House, Barbara Webster
10. The Magic Water, Barbara Webster
11. The Color of the Country, Barbara Webster
12. The Hills of Home, Amy Stewart Fraser
13. At the Back of the North Wind, George MacDonald
14. H.V. Morton's England, Eyre Methuen (Publisher)
March 2008
15. What's Your God Language? Dr. Myra Perrine
16. Still Glides the Stream, Flora Thompson
17. Keeping a Princess Heart in a not so Fairy-Tale World, Nicole Johnson
18. Small Surrenders, Emilie Griffin (on-line Lenten readings from www.paracletepress.com)
19. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See
20. The Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross, Nabeel Jabbour
April 2008
21. My Mother's House and Sido, Colette
22. Break of Day, Colette
23. My Devon Year, Eden Phillpotts (pub. 1903)
May 2008
24. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Naomi Shihab Nye
25. Water My Soul, Luci Shaw
26. The Divine Romance, Gene Edwards
27. Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson
28. The Country Calendar and Other Writings (poems, and Heatherly), Flora Thompson
29. Ali and Nino: A Love Story, Kirban Said
30. Linnets and Valerians, Elizabeth Goudge
31. Earthly Paradise, (Colette's autobiography, drawn from writings of her lifetime, by Robert Phelps)
June 2008
32. The Divine Hours (Prayers for Springtime), Phyllis Tickle
33. Cross and Crescent, Colin Chapman
34. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Amanda Foreman
35. The Edge of Day: A Boyhood in the West of England, Laurie Lee
36. A Redbird Christmas, Fannie Flagg
37. There's Something About Christmas, Debbie Macomber
38. The Gown of Glory, Agnes Sligh Turnbull
39. The Perfect Hostess, Rose Henniker Heaton
July 2008
40. Cranes' Morning, Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen
41. The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark
42. The Rosemary Tree, Elizabeth Goudge
43. Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eugene Peterson
44. 100 Days in the Secret Place, Gene Edwards
45. The Bishop's Mantle, Agnes Sligh Turnbull
46. The Edwardian Lady, compiled by Ina Taylor about Edith Holden
47. The Summer of a Dormouse, John Mortimer
August 2008
48. Breaking the Idols of Your Heart, Dan Allender/Tremper Longman
49. The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard
50. The Illustrated Lakeland Journals, Dorothy Wordsworth
51. Cluny Brown, Margery Sharp
52. Soul Talk, Larry Crabb
September 2008
53. The Spirit of the Disciplines, Dallas Willard
54. Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright
55. Make Believe, Elizabeth Goudge
October 2008
56. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
57. Heaven's Calling, Leanne Payne (autobiography)
58. Jack's Life, Douglas Gresham (Bio of C.S. Lewis, for young adult readers judging by the language level)
59. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
60. Ruined by Reading, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
November 2008
61. Stepping Up, A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent, Beth Moore
62. I Loved Jesus in the Night (about Mother Teresa), Paul Murray
63. Heaven Your Real Home, Joni Eareckson Tada
64. Wonderful and Dark is This Road: Discovering the Mystic Path , Emilie Griffin
December 2008
65. Accompanied by Angels, Poems of the Incarnation, Luci Shaw
66. Incarnation, Alistair McGrath
67. The Faces of Jesus, Frederick Buechner
68. A Diary of Prayer, Elizabeth Goudge
69. He Started the Whole World Singing, Gloria Gaither
70. Whistling in the Dark, Frederick Buechner
71. What the Land Already Knows: Winter's Sacred Days, Phyllis Tickle
72. My Father's Prayer, Phyllis Tickle
73. The Bible (Holman Christian Standard translation)
74. My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
8 comments:
I've never heard of him. Here's another author I need to check out (literally) at the library.
I will be avidly following your booklist this year.
Wait... you've finished a book and it's not even 4 days into the new year?! I have hard of MKF Fisher but have not read her work. Sounds like an interesting read! Hope you are feeling better and sleeping better soon.
I love her writing. I read her book on living in Aix and Marseilles-the title escapes me right now-and I've always meant to get the rest of her books. Thanks for the reminder.
I have not heard of this author but then I find there are lots of American books that are not on the popular list over here and of course there are those that are. The same in reverse is true too of course.
Looking at your last post reminded me, I went for a walk yesterday and for the first time took a photo of bleak looking winter hedges. Only blogging would have me think of that and especially your blog.
I truly hope you are fully recovered.
Thank you all for your well wishes. Yes, I'm happy to say I'm back to my normally healthy self again and sleeping through the night.
I went on an MFK Fisher binge a few years ago and tried to read everything I could find. I don't care for her fiction, but her other writings, on food, eating, travel, life are wonderful, in my opinion. Not sure how many of her works are still in print these days...but there seemed to be a resurgence of interest in her in the past few years.
I've never seen this book. It does look delightful. Hope you are all better! We're having some dreary weather here in the southwest...
I was able to request a couple of MFK Fisher through interlibrary loan. I'm looking forward to reading her. I love going through your list - thanks!
Jeepers Sara...you should volunteer at the library as a readers advisory specialist. You read more books than most librarians do in a year. Great mix of books.
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