WRITEON
FOR SEPT. 7, 2022
Muggy, sunny, and beautiful as spectacular September begins. What are you reading these days? I just got a wonderful (newish 2021) book by W. Ralph Eubanks called A PLACE LIKE MISSISSIPPI. Along with photos (it is a hardback), we travel from author to author across the landscape. He opens with this:
“To a first-time visitor, Mississippi’s rural landscape brings to mind solitude and loneliness, a place from which one escapes rather than returns. Yet once the bright and pure quiet of a Mississippi country setting consumes your senses, you begin to feel as if you are in a place comfortably frozen in time.” (Pg.9)
Eubanks is a well-known Mississippi author, and you may have read “Ever Is a Long Time” or “The House at the End of the Road.” His walk-through history using literary figures and photos is a delight. None of the rough past is ignored and through his own experience as a bi-racial man or lost in the shuffle. No, he expresses how different authors for example Eudora Welty and Margaret Walker met late in life and learned so much from one another. The book is a very good read, and one that should be in our library!
The other is a collection of short stories, POIROT INVESTIGATES, good old Agatha Christie’s from 1956. Here are eleven classics ,and if you have never read Christie…here’s a good one to begin with
September sweetness to y’all.
BLESSINGS.
