There are times where Shelley Read’s Go as a River reads less like a novel and more of a philosophical teaching. Grounded in Buddhist philosophy, this is a beautiful story of love, nature, family and changing times. A lyrical journey of epoch proportions this book has a doomed love affair, a flooded town, an illegitimate child, a heartbreaking abandonment….and Shelley Read writes it all beautifully. As first time novelist, Read has created a journey that you will enjoy every mile of. For a bookstore this week we talk to Appletree Books in Cleveland OH.

Books mentioned in the podcast:

• Go as a River by Shelley Read
• The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Peace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
• No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
• The Magic of Awareness by Anam Thubten
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family Time and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
• When Women Were Birds: 54 Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
• Homecoming by Kate Morton
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Henry

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