Murphy Daley is a long-time BlogCritic. Murphy’s first book The Parable of Miriam the Camel Driver draws from her experience in corporate America to examine the bigger questions about balancing career and creativity. Currently she is working on a travel memoir in Claremont, Ca.
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Talking and Listening-- The Art of Conversation by Benedetta Craveri, translated from the Italian by Teresa Waugh
No school like the old school...
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How To Build A Sandbox With Wheels For Easier Ostrich Travel
It started out as an off-Broadway musical...
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We Must Cultivate Our Garden
...some thoughts on Candide, by Voltaire.
It's basically a kind of 20th century regency romance, set in Japan.
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South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
This one might be the most realistic book of his I've read. Nothing happened that was outside the range of natural life. His descriptions of emotions were very surreal, though. It was the same Murakami I'd grown to love.
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