• Imagination Fueled by Fear & the novel: The Submission

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • June 11, 2012
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    Living life well requires using your imagination. This is sad because so many people suffer from a poverty of imagination. It is deeply sad that fear has such a profound impact on imagination. Often I ask people who their heroes or heroines are and they look at me blankly. I… Continue Reading

  • The State of Wonder (a novel) & Lack of Communication

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • November 25, 2011
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    The State of Wonder is the newest book by Ann Patchett. She is famous for her novel Bel Canto which helped me understand more about Opera within a setting of a terrorism attack. "I write about what I don't know because I love doing research." she announced when she spoke… Continue Reading

  • Shame & the novel Lost Memory of Skin

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • October 1, 2011
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    In 1980 I worked for a victim focused rape crisis center. I started the incest program for them when the only resources I could find were two books that had been written. Later, I had the opportunity to train in Philadelphia to obtain some knowledge of perpetrators. Perpetrators of sexual… Continue Reading

  • Mistakes, Accepting Our Humanity & The Novel FREEDOM

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • July 14, 2011
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    I've not been a Jonathon Franzen fan until now. I didn't like the people in Corrections which spoiled the book for me. On the first page of Freedom I was already very worried I was about to repeat the same experience. I'm very happy I persevered. Last night, I finished… Continue Reading

  • The Hunger Games & the Reality of War

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • May 14, 2011
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    It has been a delight to stumble into another strong female character in Katniss, the heroine at the heart of the trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I grew up in the female heroine desert of the 60's. It's why Ripley played by Sigourney Weaver was… Continue Reading

  • Let The Great World Spin: A Novel

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • October 11, 2010
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    This is another of the great books in my life. It’s about chance, the power of choices and the courage to be found in living ordinary lives. It improves your relationship with yourself to think about all these things that are the stuff of life. His characters have depth and… Continue Reading

  • Reduce Ugliness in Divorce/Think about the Kids

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • June 12, 2010
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    Clearly, relief from becoming divorced is not enough because so many people fall into the trap of continuing the habit of ugliness. It's as if all the broken dreams, false expectations and harbored resentments have Miracle-Gro added to the mix. Danny DeVito plays a lawyer in the movie The War… Continue Reading

  • Real Love is About Paying Attention

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • June 5, 2010
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    The most authentic love story I've read in a long time is Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips. It tells the love story of Lark, half-sister of Termite, who has hydrocephalus (a condition of fluid in the brain which enlarges the head). In the backdrop are three more unusual… Continue Reading

  • My Love Affair with Reading

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • January 15, 2010
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    Noah's Compass by Ann Tyler is my first delightful reading discovery of 2010. Anne Tyler knows the beauty of ordinary people. In her character of Liam Pennywell she tells the story of a man who loses his job at 61 and finds the terrain of relationships completely befuddling. We find… Continue Reading

  • Harry Hole; An Alcoholic Police Detective Worth Your Love

    • Rhoda Mills Sommer
    • August 20, 2009
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    I am a therapist in part, because I love people's stories. It is an honor to be an intimate part of someones life struggles. This desire carries over into my theatre choices and my reading. I've discovered that mysteries written by writers from other countries tend to delve deeply into… Continue Reading

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