What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read?

[hippywife]

39. Heart Earth by Ivan Doig (1993)

I've loved reading, and re-reading, his historical fiction over the years, as well as his memoir, This House of Sky, so I'm continuing that enjoyment with this book about his mother. She died when he was only six and he's reconstructing her life through her letters to her brother that he' recently been bequeathed upon his uncle's death.

I just posted about this over in the Fiction group, but as I've been reading, I came across this line he wrote about his mother first meeting his father, and it reminded me why I so love his writing:

"Boundaries of dream take human shape, there when our bodies begin their warm imagining."

I had to re-read that line several times, not because I didn't understand it, but because the prose is so amazing. And he doesn't spare it for his fiction only.

He's one of my favorite authors and I'd put his work up there with Wendell Berry's, whom I absolutely adore.