Ru ~ breathe deeper in Vancouver is doing 31 things including…

read a book a month in 2008

153 cheers

Ru ~ breathe deeper has written 19 entries about this goal

The Red Tent 5 days ago

~ by Anita Diamant.

I’ve been wanting to read this for a while, and Elodie brought it by knowing I need to spend less time running around like headless chicken and more time doing things like… reading a really good book. A moment of sweet thanks for our literate friends who share the wealth in times of need. ( . . . )

Oct 06, 11:35PM PDT | 11 cheers | 5 comments


Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 1 week ago

It’s been years (20+?) since I first read this. My old copy was pretty beat up, so Markus picked up a new one that I started reading when I was in the hospital. (I wonder how the upcoming movie will be?)

Oct 01, 11:01PM PDT | 3 cheers | 1 comment


Wild Years 1 month ago

: The music and myth of Tom Waits ~ Jay S. Jacobs.

Because I adore Tom Waits. Paul lent me this ages ago but I haven’t read it yet. I picked it up last night after standing in front of my book shelf for a long while.

Aug 25, 02:00PM PDT | 2 cheers | 2 comments


Hope in Shadows 2 months ago

I’d heard about this book, but I missed the launch and was wondering where to find a copy. Tuesday I went for a walk and ran into a DTES resident who was selling them, so I immediately bought one (which seemed to please him immensely). After finishing my previous book, I started this one last night. It’s beautiful and brutal so far. I’m so happy to see they actually pulled this project together!

The hopes and dreams of the people behind the beautiful photographs that come from the annual photography contest are the focus of the new Hope in Shadows book to be launched at Gallery Gachet.

Published by Vancouver-based Arsenal Pulp Press, and edited by Brad Cran and Gillian Jerome, the book focuses on the lives of 33 people who took winning photographs in the annual Downtown Eastside photography contest run by Pivot Legal Society.

The authors, Cran and Jerome, interviewed winners from the contest’s first five years, resulting in a coffee-table book which not only tells the stories of the photographers in their own words, but has beautiful reproductions of their photographs.

Just as with the Hope in Shadows calendar, the book will create much needed income for residents of the Downtown Eastide. Local people will be able to sell the book and keep 50 % of the sale price. Individuals whose stories are featured in the book also will receive the royalties from book sales.

“The strength of the annual photography contest is the benefit it provides to the local people in the Downtown Eastside,” says Paul Ryan, director of Hope in Shadows. Whether it is having a winning photograph exhibited in a gallery, or having their story published, or earning income ”’Hope in Shadows’ really means ‘Empowerment and Confidence.’”

The book launch will be held at Gallery Gachet (88 E. Cordova) and will feature some of the original images from the original exhibitions from the past five years. Local MP Libby Davies will address the opening along, with Pivot Legal Society executive director John Richardson. The authors as well as many of the subjects in the book will be there to talk about their experience.

Half of the books printed will be available for purchase by local residents for $10, who will then be able to sell it for $20, in the same way the annual Hope in Shadows calendar is sold. The remaining half of the books will be sold in bookstores across Canada by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Article from The Province

Aug 07, 02:03PM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments


Flaming Iguanas ~ Erika Lopez 2 months ago

Yeah… hellova fun book! I’m devouring it (nearly whole, I’m halfway through since last night). I love her drawings & the stamp art garnishes, her prosy way of writing and dark, dirty wit. Yummy!

Jul 31, 10:51PM PDT | 4 cheers | 0 comments


Thanks, universe 3 months ago

I was in need of a new book to read, and tah-dah! This one showed up in my mail today. Paul’s sister Linda finished it and wanted to pass it on. It’s infinitely sweeter to find a little hardcover book in the mail than hoards of bills and leaflets…

Jul 07, 11:39PM PDT | 10 cheers | 0 comments


Arcadio 4 months ago

Last night I started reading Arcadio by William Goyen (who wrote The House of Breath in 1950). I’m not that far in yet though, my reading abounds with distractions lately!

Jun 01, 11:19PM PDT | 3 cheers | 0 comments


Trio 4 months ago

I haven’t been keeping up with entries of what I’ve been reading, and I haven’t had a fat amount of book time lately, but since my last post here, I’ve read (or am still reading):

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John Gottman, Ph.D.)
Simple Abundance, A Daybook of Comfort and Joy (Sarah Ban Breathnach)
X-Files Confidential (Ted Edwards)

Relationships, happiness, and Scully & Mulder. Yes, sort of an odd trio, and I’ve had to take a few things and leave a few things here & there, but I’d say all 3 have been worthwhile. And I love the pink satin bookmark in the daybook.

I’m really feeling the need for something… meatier though.

May 24, 01:05PM PDT | 4 cheers | 2 comments


Sophie's World 6 months ago

I finished Cat’s Cradle last night & started Sophie’s World this morning. Years ago I got halfway through (loving it) and Crazy hit my life and I suddenly had to put a lot of things on hold.

My old bookmark was still in it…

Apr 02, 04:52PM PDT | 8 cheers | 5 comments


A New Earth 6 months ago

(I had a separate goal for this book and neglected to mention it here. I finished the other night.)

Funny… the quote to the right is:

“The eyes of my eyes are opened.”
- e.e. cummings

Appropriate.

Mar 26, 08:35AM PDT | 6 cheers | 0 comments


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