I feel so blessed that I can “work” from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary editor, and to comfortably say that I read for a living. It’s like living the dream (well, until the bills come in, but that’s neither here nor there). But I didn’t realize just how many [….]
Gimbling in the Wabe – Transience as a Library Book
Published on :So, I’m reading Jodi Picoult’s excellent novel The Storyteller (which I was finally able to pick up at the library) and I notice a disturbance on one of the pages. There is some kind of physical roughness stuck at the bottom right hand corner of page 113, and since I had been reading about baking [….]
Megan Abbott's THE END OF EVERYTHING: The Ashes of Childhood
Published on :The memory of adolescence is a combination of specific and universal details. I was 13 in the summer of 1976, growing up in a small suburban town on Long Island. While my parents asssumed I was listening to soft pop groups like The Captain and Tenille and The Carpenters, I secretly had my radio tuned [….]
Kathryn Stockett's THE HELP: The Past Sheds Light On The Present
Published on :It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. –Robert F. Kennedy History does not merely occur on a [….]