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Light And Variable: A Year of Celebrations, Holidays, Recipes, And Emily Dickinson
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by Connie Cronley
Sales Rank: 1743665
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 245 pages
Published by: University of Oklahoma PressEdition: 1st Edition August 15, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0806137886
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0806137889
Book Dimensions:
8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
In Light and Variable, the reader is invited to join celebrated Oklahoma essayist and commentator Connie Cronley on a delightful romp through the calendar year. Honest, unpretentious, and laced with self-deprecating humor, the essays in this book revolve around special holidays or events, some of which you may never have heard of--Festival of Sleep Day, National Failures Day, and Blame Someone Else Day.
Against a backdrop of celebrations and seasons, Cronley marvels at subjects close to her heart: siblings from outer space, small towns, champion whopper-telling ex-husbands, rascally cats, rescued dogs, deviled eggs, know-it-all hair dressers, church squabbles, books and authors, gardening efforts run aground, flocks of starlings, women's history, cowgirls, and her own Cherokee heritage. Woven throughout are fragments of Emily Dickinson's poetry; a few essays about food (not surprising from a former restaurant critic), including a history of celery in North America; a salute to rhubarb; and recipes from Frank Sinatra and Oprah Winfrey.
Grab your hat and step into Connie Cronley's special world, where the mood, like Oklahoma weather, is always light and variable.
About The Author
Connie Cronley, an award-winning journalist and radio commentator, lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is the author of a previous book of essays, Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off, and the collaborating author of Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace, a memoir by Edward J. Perkins.
Reader Reviews
Connie Cronley makes writing look easy. Her style, her sense of humor, and the way she takes the smallest things in life and gleans wisdom from them make this book a joy to read. In addition, we are treated to recipes fit for entertaining or a night curled up with a good book or movie. Like her first, Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off, these essays give the reader a sense of the places Cronley writes from--not only geographically, but emotionally. She is by turns thoughtful and funny, homespun and cosmopolitan. It sounds corny, but she makes the reader want to be a better person.
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