If I Live Until Morning by Jean Muenchrath This summer found me reading everything Meloy I could get my hands on, and Turquoise is her most popular work (with good reason.) 3. If you love Terry Tempest Williams or Ed Abbey, you’ll love Ellen Meloy. The Anthropology of Turquoise by Ellen Meloyīeautiful essays about the desert and nature! Pulitzer Prize finalist. (Also, she’s friends with Cheryl Strayed in real life!) 2. Her achingly beautiful words on wilderness, dogs, love, and international adventure have me convinced we’d be best friends, or at least Colorado soul sisters. A Little More About Me by Pam HoustonĪ reviewer once described Pam Houston as “Bridget Jones meets Indiana Jones,” which is honestly goals. The response has been incredible, with 4,000 likes and hundreds of comments in less than 24 hours! I’m thrilled to have found a community of book-loving, adventurous women on TikTok.Ĭan’t wait to give and get more book recommendations in the future! Please comment here or on TikTok with any you think we’d love. Yesterday I shared a TikTok video recommending these six books, all by outdoorsy female authors, for fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. Should you choose to purchase anything, a small portion of the proceeds will support me and Juno. It is my greatest hope that their lives will be the better for it, and I am forever grateful for the honor and the opportunity that Oprah has afforded me.Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links. Winfrey and her book club, my story will be introduced to a national audience. “My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. I wrote That Bird Has My Wings while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. “I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club: HarperOne has reissued the book, which contains a foreword by spiritual teacher Pema Chödrön, who has long championed Masters’s cause. Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today,” said Oprah. Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years.
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