Julie Berry’s Most Challenging Novel: A Book Review by Ginger Johnson
Sometimes it takes our dearest friends to tell us who we really are, and what we’ve actually made. Author and artist Ginger Johnson (The Splintered Light, The Other Side of […]
Sometimes it takes our dearest friends to tell us who we really are, and what we’ve actually made. Author and artist Ginger Johnson (The Splintered Light, The Other Side of […]
It’s been five years since I’ve written a blog post. Whoops. I’ve just updated my website to a new format that allowed me to ingest my prior blog posts from […]
I’m always late. Late to blog, late to read the books the rest of the world raves about. Late to meetings, late with paperwork. Never late for meals. Here at […]
Karen Cushman is a delight, and I could stop my review right there. The integrity and authority with which she embroiders unsentimentalized and yet hopeful, trimphant narratives of Elizabethan England […]
I’ve read some wonderful middle grade novels so far this summer, and there’s a tall stack still waiting for me. My Son Number Two, who is my great reader, has […]
In 1998 my second son was born. He was a lazy nurser and didn’t gain weight as fast as doctors would have liked. I settled on a plan to nurse […]
How shall I read Ethan Frome? It’s my first Edith Wharton novel. My studies in early 20th Century American literature are grossly lacking, so I fear I lack the proper […]
As a child, I reread my sister’s copy of Little Women until my mother bought me my own, which I then lovingly destroyed. But I never made much sense of […]
For three days I’ve been the hopeless prisoner of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South (1855), presented in audiobook format by BBC and superbly narrated by Juliet Stevenson. It’s 18.3 […]
My cat, by instinct, knows when she needs to gnaw on my houseplants to soothe her troubled belly, and sometimes I, in much the same way, know instinctively what I […]