-WB Yeats, "A Poet To His Beloved"
WB Yeats, I'm sure, gave books to his beloved that he valued highly himself, and that he handled with reverence. If you had to recommend a book you revered to someone, what would it be?
I'm asking you to highlight one book. One book that you adore, that you prize, that changed your life, that you would save from a burning building, that you found serendipitously on a library shelf or at a used bookstore, looking lonely and ignored. A book that thrills you but that, you have come to realize, no one else has really ever heard of, much less read. With Reverent Hands is all about those books- the ones that deserve a wider audience than they are given and that you want everyone to go out and read, even if they are out of print.
NOTE: This is a guest post feature on BookLust, not a meme!!
Below are links to all the books highlighted in the With Reverent Hands series.
I'm asking you to highlight one book. One book that you adore, that you prize, that changed your life, that you would save from a burning building, that you found serendipitously on a library shelf or at a used bookstore, looking lonely and ignored. A book that thrills you but that, you have come to realize, no one else has really ever heard of, much less read. With Reverent Hands is all about those books- the ones that deserve a wider audience than they are given and that you want everyone to go out and read, even if they are out of print.
NOTE: This is a guest post feature on BookLust, not a meme!!
Below are links to all the books highlighted in the With Reverent Hands series.
- Bridge of Birds, by Barry Hughart (Aarti)
- Magician, by Raymont Feist (Blodeuedd)
- Love in the Present Tense, by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Leah)
- The Changeling Sea, by Patricia McKillip (Kiirstin)
- The Last Temptation of Christ, by Nikos Kazantzakis (Sumanam)
- Illyrian Spring, by Anne Bridge (Book Snob)
- Empress of the World, by Sara Ryan (Jodie)
- A Sundial in the Grave: 1610, by Mary Gentle (Zibilee)
- A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold (Mike)
- Call It Sleep, by Henry Roth (Laura)
- Words by Heart, by Ouida Sebestyen (Nicole)
- The Power of One, by Bryce Courteney (Greg)
- The Fishermen, by Hans Kirk (Louise)
- The Only Boy for Me, by Gil McNeil (Zee)
- The Blue Castle, by L.M. Montgomery (Rachel)
- The Unfortunates, by BS Johnson (Stu)
- Keeping Her in the Light, by Nicole Fuentes (Jomel)
- The Hunters, by James Salter (Skip)
- My Dream of You, by Nuala O'Faolain (Lisa)