Lelia
Book Review: Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
I’m not sure what happened in Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, but I loved every minute of it. From what I gathered, a young woman, who’s ...
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Lelia
- Jul 19
- 2 min
Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time" and Pluto
I recently read in a New York Times article (“Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?" By A.O. Scott) about Roland Barthes’...
Lelia
- Jul 11
- 2 min
Book Review: Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
I can’t say I enjoyed this book. Before reading it and after reading it, I had the impression of someone who’d co-opted her life...
Lelia
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Book Review: The Eye of the Story by Eudora Welty
I love having Eudora Welty in my life, so The Eye of the Story was a pleasure to dip into over the course of many weeks. Not every essay...
Lelia
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Book Review: Tom Nolan's Ross Macdonald: A Biography
“What the reader hopes most to see in a biography is the work of the intelligent scholar who also feels an affinity for his subject.” -...
Lelia
- Jul 7
- 1 min
Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness
This book was too disappointing to finish. I loved Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, so maybe my hopes were too high for this one. But...
Lelia
- Jul 4
- 3 min
Saturn in Pisces: Do Effort and Surrender Go Together?
Right now — and for the next several years — Saturn is transiting through Pisces, which calls for a bit of a stretch for many of us....
Lelia
- Jun 27
- 4 min
Crabwise: The Wisdom of Cancer
In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, there’s a wonderful character called Nest. From her name to her every action, she embodies the healing,...
Lelia
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Here Comes the Sun: Orienting Life Around Your Sun's Values
Flannery O’Connor once told an audience, “It is the extreme situation that best reveals what we are essentially. The man in the violent...
Lelia
- May 2
- 1 min
The Great Work of Saturn: Grave and Persistent Effort
“A Worn Path” is one of Eudora Welty’s most powerful short stories, and if you've read it, you know the epic journey Phoenix Jackson...
Lelia
- Apr 24
- 2 min
By Jove, Jupiter Has Entered Taurus!
With Jupiter entering Taurus - it transits through the sign of the Bull from May 16, 2023 until May 25, 2024 - there’s a lot of talk...
Lelia
- Apr 11
- 2 min
A Uranian Anthem: Navigating Bolts from the Blue
Having just had a thunderbolt knock me out of my routine and off my comfortable perch, I’ve been thinking about Uranus, the Lord of...
Lelia
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
Jenn Shapland, Non-linearity and Lunar Consciousness
Having just finished My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland and, on the same day, discovered the journals of Janice Lowry,...
Lelia
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
Learning from Clichés: The Trite but True in Astrology
In one of Steven Forrest’s books, he mentions that every astrological sign could be reduced to a few clichés. That cliché might be a...
Lelia
- Sep 10, 2022
- 2 min
Pisces/12th House/Neptune
It' seems to me that if Neptune is prominent in your chart, or Pisces or the 12th house, you might find these quotes resonant. Or if...
Lelia
- Jul 29, 2022
- 3 min
Pym, Woolf and the Small Things in Life
“The position of unmarried women—unless, of course, she is somebody’s mistress, is of no interest whatsoever to the reader of modern...
Lelia
- Jun 4, 2022
- 3 min
Writing About Writing: Muriel Spark, Elena Ferrante and Sylvia Plath
It occurs to me that writers write about writing a lot more than I realized. Take The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. According to an article...
Lelia
- May 21, 2022
- 7 min
Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story
Great Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
Lelia
- Apr 30, 2022
- 7 min
Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading
About halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
Lelia
- Apr 19, 2022
- 1 min
Penelope Fitzgerald & the Exponentially Possible
Barbara Pym wasn’t a Penelope Fitzgerald fan. In a letter to Phillip Larkin, Pym writes, “I read Penelope Fitzgerld’s The Book Shop,...
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