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Joan L. Cannon
Joan L. Cannon likes to use her middle initial because so few of her maiden namesakes are left anywhere (Huguenot LaPrades). She's a retired teacher, retail manager, and part-time handy-person for the selectmen of her Connecticut town, library trustee, and aspiring writer.
From childhood there have been toss-ups for her avocations among reading, riding horses, painting, writing and homemaking. Now's she's happy to be mostly retired even from those activities since moving to a life care community with her husband of over half a century. Retired turns out to be a relative term since there's always labor need for good causes.
Email Joan: jlcannon28 (at) att.net
Articles
Wishing for "A Modest Proposal"
Worth Revisiting: Islandia by Austen Tappan Wright
Making (Thoughtful) Plans for a Retirement Home
A Scrim of Memory; A Meditation on Reunions
Love, an Inspiration ... or Not?
Reviews
CultureWatch: Pulitzer winner The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao is horrifying and often funny, gripping, sad and cathartic in the Aristotelian sense. Alice Hoffman's The Third Angel is literate, out-of-the-ordinary fiction. Robert Parker's Sea Change is a suspenseful story that carries one or two moral messages
CultureWatch: The Other is based on connotations stirred by an ironically simple and brief quotation from Rimbaud, Je est un autre.
CultureWatch: The Monster of Florence readers will find it fascinating, frustrating and challenging
CultureWatch in Paperback: 1421, The Year China Discovered America makes even relatively ancient history shine with the luster of adventure and amazement
CultureWatch: Chinese Lessons is written in an artful and entertaining style; China's Government policies are not soft-pedaled.
CultureWatch: Where the Lake Becomes the River is a treasure for lovers of psychological fiction and a story to savor
CultureWatch: Wallace Stegner's Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs demonstrates that as a writer of style and elegance, he has few equals. Rancho Weirdo by Laura Chester contains humor that is integral, not incidental, and they are wonderfully irreverent tales
CultureWatch: Quite a Year for Plums' characters are a Southern collection of psychologically scarred individuals endowed with flaws that don't become burlesque.
CultureWatch: Somewhere Near the End by Diana Athill: Entertaining and challenging; a literate as well as a literary delight.
CultureWatch: The Elegance of the Hedgehog is so dense that it is good for several days' reading; boring it is not.
CultureWatch: Each one of John Updike's My Father's Tears and Other Stories makes the reader fully aware of the writer's sense of mortality. These stories come from the imagination and the history of an aging artist. My Father's Tears is not to be missed
CultureWatch: Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans may be nonfiction, but the author makes it as affecting as any novelist could
Worth Revisiting: Islandia By Austen Tappan Wright
CultureWatch: Kristin Hannah's The Winter Garden is a slightly flawed but enjoyable tale about people who fit the fiction, but some perhaps not quite to the life
Book Review, Mark C. Taylor's Field Notes From Elsewhere
Review of the novel Luncheon of the Boating Party, a kind of hybrid of fictionalized biography, historical novel, and discourse on painting techniques of the Impressionists
Reviews, CultureWatch: The Anthologist has a rather bittersweet plot, but includes more criticism, philosophy, and satire than ordinary fiction. Following the Water is actually poetry in prose and science as art, including philosophy and religion without confrontation.
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