What are you reading now?

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There are things you will have to give up
See it to achieve it
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Write slowly
A celebration of the pause
Monday, a run through the driving rain
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lizshine74

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Liz Shine teaches high school English, writes, edits, and coaches other writers from her home in Olympia, WA. When she begins to feel overwhelmed by it all, she simply looks up at Mount Rainier in the distance and gets back to work. If that fails, she heads to the ocean. She is a founding editor at Red Dress Press. Her Substack Make Time is her gift to writers, like her, trying to magic time in this crazy, busy world. All of those posts are cross-posted on the blog here. You can see more of her writing at lizshine.com and find her on Instagram {@lizshine.writer} cooking, traveling, and in other ways seeking moments of awe. She has been an active participant in communities of writers since the early 1990s. She’s learned that two things feel truly purpose-driven in life: writing and coaching other writers. In the in between (because one cannot be driving for a purpose every moment), she enjoys looking for wonder and connection. She is a lifelong yoga student, an enthusiastic walker along streets and trails, and an amateur gardener and vegetarian cook. She lives in Olympia, WA. She believes in the power of practice and has been practicing writing since some time in the early 90s when she became an adult in the rain-soaked city of Aberdeen. Writing began with journaling, as a way to understand a confusing, sometimes violent coming-of-age. She writes mostly fiction, some nonfiction, and poetry, and holds an MFA from Pacific Lutheran University’s Rainier Writers Workshop. She is a founding editor at Red Dress Press.

3 comments

  1. Christina says:

    I’m in the middle of Christopher Moore’s “Coyote Blue.” My sister-in-law, Emelita, loaned me this book because my nightstand, normally stacked with books to read to the point of teetering, was down to almost nothing. My husband’s been unemployed for a few weeks and I haven’t been able to purchase enough books to properly weigh down my nightstand. So, I’m borrowing now–which is good; I get to read some things that I normally probably wouldn’t. “Coyote Blue” is one such book.

    “Coyote Blue” is a light, fresh book. It’s incredibly fun to read. But you’d be wrong if you thought of it only as amusing. Thrown in with all that humor and silliness is a whopping lot about love, the search for identity, spiritual journeys.

    I read this line about the book recently on the internet…wikipedia maybe?…it was not attributed to anyone, but it describes people who like this novel, and others like it, quite well: It is a cult novel for people too smart and too hip to be part of a cult.

  2. Christina says:

    I just finished reading “Zoli” by Colum McCann. “Zoli” is about a female gypsy singer and poet. The novel is set among gypsies in Slovakia after the second world war. It’s a beautiful novel filled with sights and smells, poetry and music. It’s a tragic novel full of heartbreak and pain, fragility and strength. McCann’s tale is intelligent, compassionate and compelling.

  3. Jackie says:

    I’m reading Lessons on Becoming Myself by Ellen Burstyn. This is a must read for all spiritual creative women. If you have seen the movie Resurrection
    you’ll know why I am reading this book and it does not disappoint.
    I’m also reading Life After Death by Deepak Chopra. I’ve read other books by Deepak, hear him speak in person and on PBS. This book is amazing, maybe even better than Ageless Body Timeless Mind — which revolutionized mind body thought.
    Jackie

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