“Wipe the pap of your mother’s breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,’ the man with his chin on the ground said. ‘No one of us will see the sun go down this night.” ― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls A tragic tale of woe and misfortune about an American who has been ordered to blow up a bridge. Over the course of about three days we watch and listen as Robert Jordan and a band of Spanish Rebels prepare themselves for the battle to come. Given the title, it should come as…
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Blood, Bone, & Butter
There are times while reading Blood, Bone, & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton that I find myself smiling from the simple pleasure of her prose. A good writer can tell you how she makes pasta. A great writer makes you want to dust the flour off your hands once she has finished telling you how she makes pasta. Gabrielle Hamilton is a great writer. The opening pages of Blood, Bone, & Butter paint an achingly beautiful portrait of an ideal life lived with the perfect family that you know it will go terribly wrong in short order. And when it does go…